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RESOURCES, STATISTICS, RAILROADS, 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



BUSINESS AND ADVANTAGES. 



ROBERT A. TYSON, 

Professor of Rhetoric-- Hove Uiterary IiisfiluW. 



WITH ILLUSiRATIONS. 



EAST sr. LolJis; 

I'ltnti <l l)y .Tohn Haps & Co. , Nutional !>tock Yal'dSi 
1875v 



Of East St. Loui!> Ilh. Of Belleville, Ills. 

BOWMAN & HALBERT 

OFFICE: IN THE BOWMAN BUILDING, ON MAIN STREET, 

(Orr. CITY HALL,) 

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 



ST.CLAIH LAUD TITLE OFFICE 

SWINEFORD ^ SCHRADER 

i MANAGERS, 

OFFICE— Tlie Coart House, ITezt Door to Recorder's Office at 
BELLEVILLE ILLINOIS, 

\V<' li;u o a fully posted al>stract of all conveyances anil decrees recorded 
in St. C'lair Comity, lllin« is. relating to Real Estate in the Connty: m'so jifou- 
nte plats of all recorded divisions of land and lots, both of the County at 
Jar<r<! and of tlie ninnicip;dities of: 

I'^itwt Nt. lioiiis, Belleville, Hew Athens, liebaiio", 

Miiseoutali, Freebwrg, Ceiitel'ville (Miilsladt), Siiiii- 

]iiei'flel«l. I'aseyvillp, Ocorgetowii, Etist Caroii- 

clelet, Brooklyn, Caliokia. <&e. 

This enables us, at, short notice, to furnish information about Title, 
Location and Value of Real E tate in all parts of the County of St Clair. 
«;onveyaucingand tax paying attended to promptly, correctly and with dis- 
patch. Address, 

SWINEFORD & SCHRADER. 
Belleville, Ills. 



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OF 

EAST ST. LOUIS 

ITS \ 

RESOURCES, STATISTICS, RAILROADS, 

PHYSICAL FEATURES' 

BUSINESS AND ADVANTAGES. 



/ 

ROBERT A. TYSON, 

Professor of Rhetoric — Ho\ve Literary Institute. 



WITH ILLUSIEATIONS. 



EAST Sr. LOUIS: 9i^ . 
I'riutecl by John Haps & Co. , yutioual stock Yards. 
1S75. 






CITY 



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EAST ST LOUIS 



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Eiitcretl according to Act of Cjugress, in the year 1875. 
By ROBEPtT A. TYSON, 

In Ihe Ofliceof the Librai-ian ot Congress, at Washington ; All rights reserved. 






DEDICATION. 



To His 
Honor, the 
Mayor, the 
Board of Alder- 
men and the Citi- 
zens of East St.Eouis 
^vhose friendly counsel 
encouraged me to begin, 
prosecute, and successfully 
consumate an undertak- 
in^g environed with 
every difficulty,- 
this work is 
respectfully 
dedicated 
by 
THE AUTHOR. 



PREFACE. 

In the execution of the object of showing the History and 
Resources of East St. Louis, 1 have relied mainly on knowled^je 
obtained at first band, having personally visited the several pub- 
lic and private institutions of our enterprising city and conversed 
Avith their owners. The courtesy of these gentlen?en is hereby 
acknowledged. 

Among the works consulted I hereby acknowledge the asbist- 
ance derived from "Peck's Western Annals," "Melnotte's Yalley 
of the Mississippi," Shea's ''Discovery and Explorations of the 
Mississippi by Marquette, LaSalle, AUouez, Membre, Hennepin 
and Douay," "Smith's Railway Celebrations of 1857," "Ford's 
Illinois," "History of St. Louis and Missouri," by E. Shepard, and 
various pamphlets and papers. 

I have in ray possession a mass of historical data, including a 
fac simile of a map drawn in 1763, by James Marquette, of the 
Mississippi river and Illinois countiy, that was unavailable for 
the present object, which is, as stated in my original prospectus, 
to illustrate and exhibit the great natural resources of East St. 
Louis. In a future publication I design utilizing this data, and 
also add to the historical value of this work by means of such 
emendations, corrections and additions as may be suggested by 
friends, and which properl}' belong to the permanent History of 
East St. Louis. 

THE AUTHOR. 

Howe Literary Institute, October 4, 1875. 



ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS. 



Original Prospectus, June, 1876. 

HISTORY OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 

ITS EESOUKCES, GEOWTH AND ATTRACTIONS 



The subscriber respectfully directs the attention of the public 
to the above work. It is intended lo supply a want felt by all for 
a sketch of the pro<:^res8 and present standing of East St. Louis 
among other western cities. 

The plan is to present a view of important events which have 
occured from the earliest records to the present time. 

Information is solicited; all that is available will be drawn 
from tha records existing and from persons still living who have 
been eyewitnesses of the eliy'B growth, of 

''Scenes which the}' saw. 
Part of which they were." 

The work will be issued in pamphlet form, in order that public 
spirited citizens may send it at small outlay to their friends, B}'' 
thus showing in a convenient form this view of the social and busi- 
ness advantages of the place, citizens may at a day near at hand 
have the satisfaction of causing a large number of enterprising 
people (including their friends and kinsfolk) to move here to share 
the general prosperity. 

Authentic anecdotes connected with the subject will be ad- 
mitted. As the work will be circulated freely far and near among 
reading people, who will read its advertisements to get a true 
view of the business enterprise shown here, it thus becomes a first- 
class means of bringing together seller and buj^er. Henca such 
advertisements will be admitted, at cheap rates, as will give a just 
idea of the enterprise of the young city. The first editien of three 



OUIGIXAL rnOSPECTUS. f^ 

thousand copies will bo published in paper covers lor general dis- 
tribulion. 

The interests nf East St. Louis are identical with those of St. 
Louis. Their interests are one and the same by nature, situation, 
language and common pursuits. Community of interests inter- 
lace and lock them together in the friendly bonds of prosperous 
brotherhood. Their interests are as nearly related as those of 
mother and child. The pursuits of manufacturing, commerce, 
science, art and literature are alike open to both. The develop- 
ment of the great natural resources of each, of excellence in the 
above pur.snils, and as the grand result of these the development 
of noble character in the individual citizen, that he may be public 
spirited, wise, far-seeing, patriotic, fraternal and progressive, is 
the aim alike of the best classes in both the elder and younger St. 
Louis. To this end may tie adopt as his motto thcoc noble senti- 
ments of the world's poet: 

•'Corruption wins not more than honesty; 

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. 

To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not ; 

Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy Country's, God's, and Truth's."' 

As an effort looking toward this end, the above work is un- 
dertaken by the author. Application for copyright has already 
been made. 

EGBERT A. TYSON, 
Howe Literary Institute, East St. Louis. 

"We, the undersigaed, heartily endorse the above work of Prof. 
Tyson. We promise him our assistance and patronage, and re- 
spectfully- urge every public spirited citizen to do the same. 

Samuel S. Hake, Mayor; Maurice Joj-ce, P. W. Vaughan, John 
Benner, Christ. Rohm, John Doyle, John Niemes, John V. Tefft, 
Nicholas Colgan, Counfilmen. Ernest W. Wider, Wm. C. Ellisop, 
Luke II. Ilite, Marcus Finch, Harrj" Elliot, John W. Renshaw, L. 
M. St. John, J. Phillips, Prop. St. Louis Hotel, Henry Schall, Dry 
Goods and Clothing, Vital Jarrot, Bunker j Jasper & Kocling, Dry 
Goods and Clothing, J. B. Sikking, P. M; Henry Jackieseh, j. 
D. Manners, Arch'd Beatt}^, James H. Campbell, Thomas Quick, 
Geo. W. Brackett, J. B. Messick. 



OFFICERS OF ILLINOIS. 



OFFICERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, 

FROM ISOO TO 1S74. 
Illinois wai5 Constituted a separate Territory by Act of Congress Febni ;ry 2, 1S09. 

ILLINOIS TKIiKIOKV. 

Name of Officer. Office. Date of Commission or 

Inauguration. 

Natlifiniel Pope^ Secretary ol the Territoiy.March 7, 1809. 

Ninian Edwards Governor April 24, ISOU. 

H. H. Maxwell Auditor Public xVccounts 1816. 

Daniel P. Cook Auditor Public Accounts. January IB, 1816. 

Joseph Phillips Secretary December 17, 1816. 

Kobert Blackwell Auditor 'Public Accounts.April 5, 1817. 

Eiig-ahC. Berry....* Auditor Public Accounts.Auoust 2t>, 1S17. 

John Thomas Treasurer 1818. 

STATE OF ILLINOIS. 

Shadrach Bond (^iovernor October G, 181S. 

Pierre Menard Lieut-Governor October 6, 1818. 

Elias K. Kane Secretary of State October 6, 1818. 

Elijah C. Berry Auditor Public Accounts 1818. 

John Thomas Treasurer isis. 

EobertK. McLauo-hlin... .Treasurer Au^-ust 2, 1819. 

Edward Coles Governor December, 1822. 

Adolphus F. Hubbard Lieut-Governor December, 1822. 

Samuel D. Lockwood Secretary of State Decembe IS, 1S22. 

Abner Field Treasurer Januarj^ li. 1823. 

David Blackwell Secretary of State April 2. 1823. 

JMorris Birbeck Secretary of State October 15, 1824. 

George Forquer Secretary of State January 15, 1825. 

Niniaii Edwards Governor December, 1826. 

William Kinney Lieut-Governor December, 1826. 

James Hall Treasurer February 12, 1827. 

Alexander P. Field Secretary of State January 23, 1829. 

John lieynolds Governor December 9, 1830. 

Zadock Casey Lieut-Governor December 9, 1830. 

Jolin Dement Treasurer February 5. 1831. 

James T. B. Stapp Auditor Public Accounts.August 27, 1831. 

Joseph Duncan Governor December, 1834. 

Alexandrer M. Jenkins. ..Lieut Governor December, 1834, 

Levi Davis Auditor Public Accounts. November 16, 1835. 

Charles Gregory Treasurer December 5, 1836. 

Jchn D. Whiteside Treasurer March 4, 1837. 

'J'homas Carlin Governor December, 1838. 

Stinson H. Anderson Lieut-Governor December, 1S3S. 

Stephen A. Douglas Secretary of State Xovember 30, 1840. 



OFFICERS OF ILLINOIS. 



Lymap Triin;biill Secretar}' of State March ], 1841. 

2\liliaii Carpi'iiter Trcasuit'r Marcii, 1.S41. 

Jaiiifs Sliic'id.s Aiitlilor Public Accounts. March, 1S41. 

Thomas P'orcl Governor Dcccinljor 8, 1842. 

John Moort' Liout-Governor Dtccnibor 8, 1842. 

Tlionias Cauiplicll yccrctary ot State Maryh (i, 1843. 

■WiUiani 1.. IJ. Kwing Auilitor*rublic Accounts. Marcli G, 1843. 

Thomas H. Campbell Auditor P. A. {to fill vac. )March 20. 184G. 

*Au<ru<tiis C. French Governor December 1), 184G. 

Josepli K. Weils Lieut-Governor Decemb<'r U. 184G. 

Horace b. Cooley Secretary of State December 23. 184G. 

John Moore Treasurer {to fill vacancy) h^w^wat 14, 1S48. 

William MeMurtry T/ieut-Governor January, 1841). 

I»avul L. tire,i;-^ Sec'y ot State {to fill vac.)A\n-\\ 3", LSoO. 

Joel A. ^latteson Governor January, 18.53. 

Gustavus Koerner Lieut-Governor January, 1853. 

Alexaniier Starne Secretary of State January. 1^.53. 

Is'inian \\'. Edwaids Sup't Public Ins.truction.. March 24, 1854. 

■\Vllliam IL Bi^sfll Governor Januarj^ 12, 1857. 

Jolni Wood Lieut-Governor January 12, 1857. 

Ozias M. Hateh Secretary of State January 12, 1857. 

Jesse K. Dubois Auditor Public Accounts. January- 12, 1857. 

James Miller Treasurer , January 12, 1857. 

William H. Powell Sup't Public Instruction. .Januaiy 12, 1857. 

Xewtun Bateman Sup't Public lnstrnelion..Januai-y 10, 1859. 

William Butler Treasurer {to fi^'U'vaca7icy)>iii\\\v\\\bi.'r 3. 1859. 

liiehard Yates Governor Januar}' 14, ISGl, 

Francis A. llofiman Lieut-Governor Januarj^ 14, 18G1. 

Ozias M. Hatch Secretary of State January 14, 18G1. 

Jesse K. Dubois Auditor Public Accounts January 14, 18G]. 

William Butler Treasurer January 11, ISGl. 

Newton Bateman Sup't Public Instructon... January 14, 18G1. 

Alexander Same Treasurer Jaiuiary 12, 18G3. 

John P. Brooks Sup't Public Instruction. ..January 12, 18G3. 

liiehard J. O^lesby Governor Jvnuary IG, 186G. 

"William Bross Lieut-Governor ..Januar.y ]G, 1865. 

Sharon Tyndale Secretary of State Januaij- IG, 18G5. 

Oriin II. Jliner Auditor Public Accounts. December 12, 1864. 

James H. Beveridfje Treasurer January 1), ]8G5. 

Newton Bateman Sup't Publicliistruction.. January 10, 18G5. 

George W. Sm.th Treasurer January, 18G7. 

John M. Palmer Governor January 11, 18G9. 

John Don<rln;rt3' Lieut-Governor January 11, 18G9. 

Edward Kummel Secretary of State January 11, 18G9. 

Charles E. Lippincott Auditor Public Accounts. January 11, 18i;9. 

Erastus N. Bates Treasurer January 11, 1S(!9. 

Newton Bateman Sup't Public Instruction. .Januarj', 1871. 

Erastus N. Bates Treasurer November 8, 1870. 

Itichard J. 0<;lesby Governor January 13 1873. 

John L. Beverid<!;e Lieut-Governor January 13. 1873. 

Geor^re H. Harlow Secretary of State January 13, 1873. 

Charles PJ. Lippincott Auditor Public Accounts. January 13, 1873. 

Edward llutz Treasurer January 13, 1873. 

John L. Beverid<;-e Governor {activff) .'.January 23, 1873, 

|John Early Lieut-Governor {acting). ..JanvAiry 23, 1873. 

I Archibald Glenn Lieut-Governor {acting)... 

*i;e-e]eeted in 1848, under the new constitucion. 

^President of the Senate. 

^Is now President of the Senate. 



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COUNTY AND CITY DIRECTORY'' 

COUNTY DIRECTOEY. 

CIRCUIT COURT — JUDGE, WM. H. SNYDER. 

First form, first Monday in January ; Second term, tlaird Monday in April ; 
Tbifd t(.'rni, tliird Monday in September. 

CCUNTY COURT — JUDGE, P. H. PIEPER. 

Probrite Matters— Third Monday of every montli. County Court— Com- 
mon Law J misdietion— Second Monday of Marcli, July and December. 

COUNTY OFFJOERS. 

Louis C. Starkel, County Clerk ; Georufe W. Sieber, Treasurer ; Charles 
P. Knispel, Attorney, Charles Becker, Ch'cuit Clerk ; James P. Shide. Su- 
perintendent Schools ; G. F. Tlllgard, Survej'or ; Hermann G. \\^eber, Slier- 
ifl"; Phdlip Scliildknecht, Coroner. 

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 

Auofustus Chenot, C. L. Emmericli, Frederick C. Horn. The Board 
meets on the tirst Monday of each month. 



CITY DIEECTOEY. 

COURT OF RECORD— JUDGE, DANIEL m'GOWAN. 

CITY COURT — JUDGE, J. B. ME8SICK. 

CITY OFFICERS. 

Mayor. S. S. Hake ; Treasurer, B. Franz ; Cle k, Wm. O'Neill ; Collector, 

J. M. Sullivan; Assessor, T. J. Canty; City Attorney, , City 

Counsellor, J. B. Bowman. 

ALDERMEN. 

First ward — Maurice Joyce, P. H. Vaughan ; Second ward — John Nie- 
mes, John Benner; Third ward — Christian Rohm, John V. Telft; Fourth 
ward— John Doyle, Nicholas Colgan. 

BOARD OF riE..\LTH. 

Michael Higgins, First ward ; Alexander Fekete, Second ward ; Michael 
Flynn, Third ward ; Patrick Hennesey, Fourth ward* Meet in Council 
Chamber. 

Officers in the Board— Alexander Fekete, President; J. W. Benedict, 
Clerk. 

OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY — 1875-6. 

John B. Bowman, President ; Charles C. Shuetz, Vice President; Wm. 
O'Neill, Secretary. 

DIRECTORS. 

John B. Bowman, Henry Elliott, Luke H. Hite, Wm. G. Kise, E. L. 
McDonouirh, Wm. O'Neill, Chas. C. Schuetz, John M. Snllivaii, P. M. 
Sullivan. 

Janitor Public Offices— Daniel Sexton. 



CHURCH AND SOCIETY DIKi^:CTORY, 11 

CHUECII DIEECTOEY. 

Si. Patrick's ( Ell ffli^ih) Roman Catliolic Church— Illinois avenuo. between 
Sixth and Seventh streets. Services at 7:00 a. ni. and 2:30 o'clock p. m* 
Vespers at 3:30 o'clock p. ra. llev. P. J. O'llalloran, Pastor. 

St. Henry's (German) Roman Catholic Church — Services at 8:00 a. m. 
Rev. Christopher Koenis, Pastor. 

Prt'sbyterian Church — Third street, between Mullikm street and Christy 
avenue. Services at 11 a. ni., and 7:30 p. ni. Prayer meeting every Wednes- 
day at 7:30 p. m. Rev. \Vm. Johnston, Pastor. 

St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church — Railroad street, between Main 
and Second streets. Services at 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 
2:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting every Wcdnesda}* at 7:30 p. ni. Rev. J. W. Grant, 
Pfistor. 

German Evangelical Lutheran Church— On Ei<;hth street, between Illi- 
nois an) St. Louis avenues. Services at 10:00 a. m. Rev. Mr. Meyer Pastor. 

^lissionary Baptist (Colored) Church — Bradj^ street, between Third and 
Fourth streets. Services at 10:00 a. m., and 7:00 p. m. Sunday school at 
2:00 p. m. Rev. Park Hutchison, Pastor. 

Advent Christl.in (Colored)Church— Corner of Fourth and Converse 
streets. Sf rvioes at 10:00 a. m., and 7;00 p. m. Sunday school at 2:00 p. m. 
Rev. Mr. Micken, Pastor. 

First Biptist Church meets every Sundnj' in the Howe Institute. Ser- 
vice at 11 a. m. and 7:00 p. m. Prof. S. F. Holt, Pastor. Sabbath School at 
2:30 p. ra. 



SOCIETY DIEECTOEY. 



East St. Louis Lodge No. 504, A. F. & A. M., meets n-gularly at their 
hall on Broadway the 1st and 3d Thursday's of each month,at 7] o'clockp. m. 

Anson GustIx, W. M. 
E. Newkirk. Sec. 

East St. Louis Chapter No. 150 R. A. M. meets second V^ednesday in 
each month. 

u. o. T. B. 

East St. Louis Lodge, Xo. 19 meets every Monday evening in Becker's 
Hall. 

I. O. O. F. 

Golden Rule, Tuesday evening, St. John's Hall. 
I'ride of the Valley, Monday evening St. John's Hall. 
St. George's, Tuesday evenings, Lovingston Building. 
Helvetia (German), Fridaj' evening. St. John's Hall. 
St. George's (colored) No. 1524, meets every Tuesday evening in the 
Lovingston Building. 

Naoma Rebecca Lod^e meets 1st and 3d Thursdays in each month. 

o. D. s. n. 

Sons of Hermann, every Tuesday evening, in Jackiesch Hall. 



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SOCIFTY DIRECTORY. 



Division No. 4 Ancient Order of Hibernians, of East St. Louis, meet in 
their liuU on Missouri Avenue, the lirst Wednesday in every mouth. 

The Father Damon R. C. T. A. and B. Society meets— Board second 
Sunday in eac)> month — reguhir montlily meetuigs tliird Sunday in eacli 
mouth. 

East St. Louis Sliarpsliooters' Association— Benedict Franz, President ; 
Albert Volkmann, Secretary ; Alfonso Bilh'irz, Treasurer ; Henry Hennel, 
First Shooting Master ; Cliarles C. Schutez, Second Sliooting Master. Meet- 
ing first VVednesuay iu every montii. 

TURNVEREIN. 

Henry J. Cammann, first Spealvcr ; Heniy Wolters, second Speaker ; 
Charles Scliui-tz, llecordino; Secretary ; Henry Poppert, first Instructor ot 
Gymnastics ; Otto Reuter, second Instructor of Gymnastics; J.F.Becker, 
Cashier ; W:ii. Doerges, Warden. 

Society meets ct Heim's Garden every Mob day and Friday evenino^s* 

East St. Louis Saengerbund, meets every Wednesday evening, in Trau- 
bel'sHall. 

Casino meets every Monday and Thursday eveninirs, in Jackiesch's Hall. 

St. Pa .rick's Young Men's Eoman Catholic Total Abstinence and Be- 
nevolent Society meets in Firemen's Hall on Main Street, tii'st Sunday of the 
month. 

St. Joseph Catholic Benevolent Society meets every third Sunday at 11 
a. m., in the basement of St. Henry's Church. 

Island Fire Company No. 1 meets once a month in the basement of Is- 
land Chnich. Ofiicers— Nichohis Colgan, President; Wai. Johnston, Vice 
Presidtnit ; Maurice Tissier, Secretary ; G. W. Shields, As't Secretary ; Capt. 
Henry Sackmanu, Chief; John Keifiein, As't Chief. 

The East St. Louis Singing' Society meets every Thursday evening at 
Traubel's Hall. F. V. Rafter, President ; Miss Lizzie Marsh, Frank Bow- 
man, Vice Presidents ; Prof. Lehman, Treasurer ; A. Wackman, Secretary. 

Yard Master's M. B. As'cn meets first Saturday in each month, at their 
rooms, cor. Soventli and Cerre streets, St. Louis. W. S. Putnam Pres't, M. 
F. Geary Scct'y and Treas. 

Vivian Club. President, C. M. Keys; Treasurer, W. J. Broderick; Secre- 
tary H. D. O'Brien. Meets once every two weeks. — From East St, Louis 
Press. 



CONTENTS , J 3 



COHSTTEISTT'S. 

CHAPTER I. 

City and Counliy, Noted Cities, IIow Founded, pai^o 17. Origi- 
nal Site of E;isi St. Louis^ Commerce, Orii^in ot Ferry, Pi^got 
Bridge, 18. First House in- East St. Louis, Old Towns, Inci- 
dents, 19. Mississi])pi in 1707, Formation of Bloody island and 
other Islands, 20. Cor.clusion of Account of Ferrj', First Sicam 
Ferryboat, 21. Stone Wharf, OtHco of Ferry Company, 22, 

CHAPETR. ir. 

Tippecanoe, Earthquake, First Steamboat on Western Waters, 23. 
Cahokia Commons, Marquette, LaSalle, Illlnoistown, 2i. Illi- 
nois City, St. Clair, Town of East St. Louis, Ferry Divisions, 
Oebike and Kase Addition, 25. Two Duels by Benton and 
Lucas, Duel by I^ecter and Barton, and by Biddle and Pettis, 
26. Duncan's Island, The First Dyke, 28. Ground Broken ibr 
the Western Division of O. & M. Eailway, 29. 

CHAPTER III. 

First Corporation and Election, 30. First to Seventh Elections, 
First Plank Sidewalk, 32. Eleventh to Fourteenth Elections, 
Pittsburg Kailroad and Coal Company. City Charter, Draft 
Fund^ First Census of Bloody Island, First Election for Mayor, 
Installation of Mayor and Council, 34. Ward Boundaries, 35. 

CHAPTER IV. 

Organization of City Government, Adoption of By-Jiiuvs, 36. 
Stated Meetings of the City Council, Standing Committees, 
Public Square, Grading and Paving Streets, Dram Shop Money 
for Schools, 37. Prevention of Overflow and Cholera, City 
Clerk, Police Force, Charges Against the Mayor Picfuted, 38. 
Board of Health. Contract for Mirket House, Filling of Streets, 
24. Municipal Elections, Lovingston, Bowman, Jarrot, 39. 
Funding the City Debt, Bowman's Dyke, Enlarged improve- 
ment, Grade, American Bottom Lime Marble and Coal Com- 
pany, Eelrenchment, Eesignation of Mayor Jarrot, Mr. Mur- 
phy Acting Mayor, 40. Fifth Municipal Election, Members of 
Council, Cahckia Creek, Public School Libary, Sickness of 
Mayor Byan, and Appointment 'j Council of John 31cMullen 
Acting Mayor, 41. 

CHAPTER V. 

Eesuraption of Duties Idy Mayor Eyan, Names of City Officers, 
Death of Mayor Eyan, 42. East St. Louis Public Library and 



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CONTENTS. 



Beading Boom, Bales, 43. St. Louis National Stock Yards, 44. 
First City Auditor, Fire Department, City Clerk, Marshals, 
Treasurers, East St. Louis Fire Company No. 1, 45. Grade 
and Sewerage in Cairo, Chicago, New Orleans and Ba^^t St. 
Louis, Sixth Municipal Election, Hon. J. B. Bowman Elect, 
Names of other Officers, 46. Buying Earth, St. iou's and 
Illinois Bridge Company, Collector and Assessor, Bermanent 
Grade and Sewerage and Scientific Estimates thereon, by 
Messrs. Flad and Whitman, 47. High and Low Grade, 48. 

CHAPTER VI. 

East St. Louis Gas Light and Coke Company, Metropolitan 
Bolice, 49. Bayment of Metropolitan Bolice Certificates, 
Money Value of East St. Louis, High Grade, 50. Letter of Col. 
Fadd, Injunction of March 6, 1875, 51. Seventh Municipal 
Election, Hon. S. S. Hake Elect, Members of Council, Conven- 
tion of the Council, 53. Improvements, 54. 

CHAPTER VII. 

Brof. Mitchell on Coal. First Coal in Illinois, Heaviest Bed of 
Coal is near East St. Louis, 55. Description of Coal Strata in 
Belleville District, Analysis, of Coal, Cheap Coal in East St. 
Louis, How Mined, 5(3. Origin of Coal, Beat, Lignite, 57. 
Coal at SSx Cents a Bushel, Bule to Measure Coal in Mine, and 
Coal Under St. Clair County, Enough to Last for Ages, 58. 
Coal Mining in detail, by a Minor, Besolutions of Miners 
Union, 59. Bates Demanded, 61. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Inland Oi! Works, East St. Louis Flourins Mills— Capacity, 62. 
Co-operative Bail Mill, Fire of 1873, 63. Cooper Shop Wanted, 
Bailroad Frog and Crossing Works, 64. Ice Houses, 65. East 
St. Louis and Carondelet Bailway, Bailroads, 65. Banks, 68. 

CHAPTER IX. 

Elevator and Warehouse Company. 70. Advance and Yenice 
Elevators, 72. Blaning Mill, 73. East St. Louis Foundry, 74. 
Blacklegs, 75. 

CHAPTER X. 

E. St Louis Grape Sugar and Glucose works, 76. St. Louis Bolt 
and Iron works, St. Louis Ti'ansfer Company, 79. Citj- Bolice, 
80. Suppression of Brizo Fights, 81. Eads Bridge, 82. Cut, 
83. Ancient Order of Hibernians, 84. Golden Bule Lodge, I. 
O. 0. F., Western Fertilizer and Chemical Works, 85. 



CON I EN rs. -ir 

CHAPTER Xr. 

Description of tho City, King Coal, 89. Streets, Facilities for 
Manufacture and Coiomcree, 89. Societj-, Vivian Club, Post 
Office, 90. Churches — St. Henry's Eoman Cuihoiic Church 
(German), Ev. Luth. Church, Schools, 92. Orisxmal School 
House, Sec. llcp. of Schools, 92. Teachers for 1875-G, lleivetia 
Lodge No. 480 I. O. O. F., 94. Lyman Howe and Howe Insti- 
tute, 95. Cut, 96. Illinois Educational Association, Origin 
Portrait Painting, 97. vSeminary and Business ColFege, St. 
John's M. E. Church, 98. First K. C. Society organized in 
East St. Louis, Father Damon Temperance Societj'^, St. Patrick's 
Eoman Catholic Church, (English), 99. Presbyterian Church, 
100. 

CHAPTER XII. 

Capt. J. Trendlo}', 101. Hon. S. S. Hake, Hon. J. B. Bowman, 
103. Capt. Eenshaw, Hon. Maurice Joyce, 104. Hon. P. H. 
VauL'han, H' n. J. Benner, 106. R^m. J. Niemes, 107. Hon. 
C. Pvohm, 108. Hon. J. V. Tetft, Hon. J. Doyle, 109. Hon. N. 
Colgan, 11. Roe, 110. L. Parent, Hon. J. B. Lovingsion, Hon. V. 
Jarrot, Hon. J. B. Messick, 111. J. W. Kirk, A. Meints, 112. 
Hun. "Wm, G. Kase, Hon. J. D. Manners^ 113. 

CHAPTER XIV. 

General Features of the City, 115. Steamboat Traffic, 116. Old 
Channel — Its Future Value, 117. The Press — Anicricaii Bottom 
Gazette, 118. East St, Louis Gazmte, East St. Louis Press, 
National Stock Yard lieporter, 119. «t. Cla^r Tribune, 120. 

CHAPTER XV, 

Origin and Present Status of the National Live Stock Interest, 
Papstown, Strawn, First Bank in old trunk, Jacob Strawn's 
Corner on Beef, 121. National Stock Yard Company, 122. 
Hichardson's Packing House, Abattoir, Waterworks of National 
Yards, 123. Good Location of National Yards, Mode ot Slock 
Transfer, 124. Private Iiesidcnces and Public Buildings, 125. 
Extended View, 126. Surroundings of East St. Louis, High 
Grade Building above Flood of 1844, 127. Ceremonies, Kx- 
3Iuyor Bowman's Speech, 128. Dr. J. W. Wade's Letter, 130. 
Two Eras in East St. Louis History, 131. 

APPENDIX. 

High Grade Ordinance, MeCarty Tract, Western Hotel, Casino, 
Pensoneau's Mill, 133. Tornado of 1871, 134. Chicago Depot, 
135. Loss at O. & M. Depot, A Man Blown Fifty Feet, Man 
Burned to Death, 180. Part of Mollie Able Blown Forty Miles, 



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Mr. Wm. E. Putnam, Missouri Car and Foundry Works, 137. 
Missouri Car and Foundry Co., 138. Canfield's Beef Eelrigera- 
tor, Masonic Lodge No. 504, Turnverein, Saengerbund, 139. 
Treubund, Officers of Douglas School, Made Land, Fires of 
1872, UO. SL. Clair County'^Turnpikc, 141. 



ERRATA. 

At page Go, in the 17th line, '-on" should be ''out." 
At page 67, line 34, ''have" should be "having." 
At page 70, 7th line, '^Hinly" should read "Hinkley." 
At page 76, the name of "liyor" should be "Heyer." 
At page 77, "Kindly" should be spelled with a small "k." 
At page 80, in the last line, "varities" should be "varieties." 
At page 78, "260" should be 360 barrels of water an hour. 
At page 97, "James" West should be Benjamin West. 
At page 103, "Cahokia" should be Centerville, and after black- 
smithing the statement, "he was for some time engaged in civil 
engineering," should be inserted. 

At page 107, 28th line, "Barbara" should bo "Bavaria." 
At page 118, last line, "Lumrix" should bo Sumrix. 
At page 119, the first sentence should end with the words, 
"bv Hon. jr. B. Bowman, who has owned it from the first." In 
the same article the sentence, "the ownership then vested in a 
Stock Company," should be omitted. 

At page 128, in ex-Mayor Bowman's address, "ibe bank" 
should be "the right bank." 

At page 106, 7th line, "George" should be "Charles." 
At page 140 "Freubund" should be Treubund. 
At page 140, "as,"' the first word of the article on "Made 
Land," should be "It." 

At page 129, 17th line, "is" should be "are." 



HISTORY OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 



CHAPTER I. 

It has been said that God made the countiy, and man made 
the town. 

This was however a hasty utterance. Wbon wo consider the 
natural causes that conspire to f^ive importance to given situations 
on the globe; where commercial advantages are great; and agri- 
culture, the great mother of all temporal interests, has rich and 
open fields; when mines are over-running with riches and ready- 
to pour their cornucopias of wealth at the bidding of busy man, 
we see the power, and hear the fiat of God as much in the crea- 
tion of the town, as in that of the country. 

Indeed the town is the crown of the countr^^-; the spot most 
favored of all the country. Its markets are fed by the agricul- 
tural and mineral products; and its very life-blood and healthy 
vigor assured by the vigor of the outlj'ing country ; bj' the re- 
placement of men of failing health and fortune in the rushing 
town, with men of strong physique, bounding blood, and intact 
eofi'ers from the quiet country. 

So, as it is a general truth that God made the country, that 
truth includes the other, that he also made the country's most im- 
portant part the town. 

These principles which were taught to Alexander the Great 
by the greater Aristotle led the former to the site of Alexandria, 
where he built a city whoso hygienic, commercial and literary 
advantages were unsurpassed in the Ancient World. These prin- 
ciples led Romulus to the site of Rome. By these were founded 
other cities of the classic age. And so we may remark of Paris, 
London and Yienna. 

In our own country, in modern times, the same reasons in 
1729 piloted the fleet of Lord Baltimore to the head of Chesa- 
peake Bay, where he laid out Baltimore; the ships of William 
Penn, in 1G82, to the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill 
rivers for the founding of Philadelphia; induced Peter ^linuits^ of 
the Dutch West India Companj', in 1625, to pay twenty-four dol- 
lars to the Indians for the Island of Manhattan, between Hudson 
River and Long Island Sound, and establish there the City of New 
York; led Bienville in 1718 to found New Orleans, near the Gulf 



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of Moxieo, on a Crescent of the Mississippi j caused two Francis- 
can Missionaries, in 1776 to found San Francisco, on that Bay. 
and open the Golden Gate of America to the riches of the Ividiee; 
drew the first white man, Father Jamas Marquette, to the site of 
Chicago ; founded and prospered many other cities like pearls in 
a crown. And which in 1764, led Pierre Laclede Lio;uest and 
Colonel Auguste Chouteau, to plant the good city of St. Louis, 
at the confiuenee of the Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi rivers, 
like a central diamond in the crown of Columbia. 

The original siie of East St. Louis was forest and prairie ag- 
ricultural land. 

Up to the year 1764, when the Future Great City of the 
World was planned and laid out on the high lands on the West 
side of the river and named St. Louis, for the reigning king of 
France, Louis XV, these lands possessed no more importance than 
any others which the great Father of Floods, in the wild rage of his 
annual overflo n, tossed from side to side along his course. 

As that city grew, the produce from Illinois naturally sought 
there a market. To reach St. Louis then, as now,it had to be land- 
ed first on the site of East St. Louis. From here it was crossed 
by f err}'. 

The Indian canoe styled "pirogue" was probably the first 
moans of crossing from side to side, when skins, powder, lead 
and whisky were the chief articles of freight. One of the first es- 
tablished means of crossing worthy the name of Ferry was ori- 
ginated by Captain James Piggot, who, living'on the Illinois side 
visited the Governor of St. Louis, Zenon Trudeau, and sought the 
privilege of a regular landing at the wharf of that city. He was 
very cordially received. His petition not only was granted but 
he was made a citizen of St. Louis, and clothed with further 
powers and privileges. 

Among these he was permitted to put his west side ferry 
house on the Place d'Armes, near the east end of Market street, 
St. Louis. The landing now is at the foot of Spruce street. 

The Illinois landing was nearly opposite where the Belleville 
round house is. The consideration for this privilege, it is said, was 
a certain amount of domestic fowls and wild game to be paid the 
Governor by Captain Piggot. The shore on this side was then 
heavily timbered. The solid land extended all the way back east- 
ward from the river bank to Cahokia Creek and bej'ond. 

Then before the time of the steamboat, or locomotive, if 
science had been as advanced as was the enterprise of Captain 
Piggot, the Piggot Bridge would have spanned the Mississppi. As 
it was it only spanned Cahokia Creek. 

He worked, sometimes alone, for three years, from 1692 to 
1695, and erected a bridge over Cahokia Creek on the Illinois 
road leading to St. Louis, The most of the trees he cut down 
with his own hands ; his rifle, meanwhile, leaning near, read}" for 
instant use, against an Indian foe. The bridge was a few feet north 
of the one now at the east end of Trendley street. 



EAST ST. L0UI3 



FIRST HOUSES IN EAST ST. LOUIS. 



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Having built the bridge as stated, he built two log cabins and a 
ferry boat lor crossing teams, in the year 1797. This boat was a 
simple plaltorm surrounded by railing and floated on Indian piro- 
gues. These were probably made of the largest trees. Pirogues were 
made by hollowing trees ot various sizes by cutting and burning 
oat the inside till nothing but the sides of the canoes thus shaped 
were left. The ferryboat was poled or paddled with long sweeps 
handled by Creoles. The houses above named were probably 
the firist houses erected on the present site of ^ast St. Louis. 

THE FIRST FERRY 

at this point was thus established also in the year 1797. We can 
in imagination look back and see the beginning of this important 
cit}', also the prosperity of St. Louis greatly increased by the 
patient, wise and heroic will of Captain Piggot. We see the young 
mart of St. Louis then but ti'irly years old ; the river, the primi- 
tive ferrj'boat, the timbered Illinois shore, the blue smoke curling 
upward from the two log cabins, the first road, Cabokia Creek, 
the Piggot bridge: i nd beyond all these the great country of Illi- 
nois. These early scenes should^be worthily painted and adorn 
the walls of every citizen who feels a thrill ot gratitude to the 
brave man who may be considered the founder ot the city of East 
St. Louie. 

Aftw the establishment of the Piggot ferry, successive at- 
tempts were made to eatablish towns which bore various names. 
Some of these were laid out immediately on ihe shore of the 
river, and as there were no paved levees to protect the banks, the 
river kept constantly encroaching upon the land and the towns 
were washed away. 

The first was named Washington. It was situated on the Ill- 
inois shore, eastward and opposite to the St. Louis Grain Eleva- 
tor. It consisted of a tavern owned by Mr. Samuel Wiggins and 
four or five dwelling houses. A gentleman now living near Belle- 
ville, once Clerk of St. Clair county, relates an incident that oc- 
curred to him during the time when Washington was gradually 
washing awa}'. He states that he had been to St. Louis with pro- 
duce frum his father's farm, 15 miles eastward. He says, " One 
night I slept in Wiggins' tavern. It was pretty close to the 
shore. A big sycamore tree stood eigbt feet from the house on 
the bank. Along about midnight I heard water. It seemed 
from the sound to be under the house. I thought it must be the 
river. I partly dressed, as quickly as I could, and ran out shoreward. 
Wiggins and every body else tlmt was in it ran out too expecting 
the house to go. The bigs3'camore was gone. It had taken with 
11 a piece of ground from under the house, and the river was run- 
ing under the outer wall. But it stood till morning, I got break- 



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fast there, when they moved it back further from the river. Sub- 
sequently all of the town of Washington was washed away. 

A gentleman of this city holds a deed to a lot in the town of 
Jacksonville, one of the quasi towns of the olden time, whose sands 
long since ran out — and down the river. 

CHANGE IN THE MISSISSIPPI. 

The Mississippi in 1797 ran by St. Louis with a strong cur- 
rent seventy-five feet deep. It was therefore comparatively nar- 
row. So that persons wishing to cross from either side could easily 
make Captain Piggot, on the other, hear the old time shout of 

nQ ver!" An island existed at the above date near the Illinois 

shore below ike site of this city. 

1800 — FORMATION OF BLOODY ISLAND. 

Below Bissell's Point in 1800 near the Illinois shore a small sand 
bar lifted its head above the surface of the river. This was the first 
appearance of Bloody Island. A portion of the water passing 
between 1 he Island and the Illinois shore being directed against the 
latter with some force began wearing it away. This wholesale 
destruction continued for twenty-five years aided by nature and 
unhindered by art. 

Large trees growing near the water, were undermined. This 
expanded the channel shoreward until in 1825 half the Mississippi 
flowed on the east of Bloody Island. As in all such river Changes 
where there is a wash there is a corresponding fill, so while this 
shore was thus fearfully washed the Island was filled. 

In 1825 its breadth had become greatly inci eased. This was 
especially the case near the middle of the Island. When the 
channel so largely increased the upper end of the Island was 
washed off. 

Yet large deposits of sand were filled in at the lower end in- 
creased by each flood, for which the river was more famous in 
those days than in these, until in 1850, the western side of the Is- 
land was on the site of the main shore of Illinois in 1797 and 
1800. 

OTHER ISLANDS. 

The Strong current of water thus deflected against the Ill- 
inois shore, fairly struck the other small island near it, below this 
site and carried it away. 

What was afterward known as Arsenal Island was formed. 
Duncans Island formed directly in the former deep original chan- 
nel of 1797 and 1800. Bars appeared at various places in the 
river. These impeded navigation. Boats grounded in front of 
the city. All growing from the one little sand bar of 1800 below 
Bissell's Point. 



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CONCLUSION OF HISTORY OF THE FERRY 



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Captain PIggot enjoyed the fruits ef his important enterprise but 
two years. He died in 1799, having continued hin ferry till his 
death. The ferry subsequently was owned by Mr. Day, who in 
1817, sold it to Samuel Wiggins. The means of crossing when 
Mr. Wiggins bought it were the same as originall}', except the ad- 
dition ot a small horse-power boat. 

In 1820, however, Mr. Wiggins built a hxrger ferry boat which 
he ran b}' horse-power. Horse-power boats were used till 1828. 
Their names were "Serpent/' "Ehinocerous," and " lieindeer/' 
succeeding each other. 

FIRSX STEAM FERRY BOAT. 

Mr. Wiggins in 1828, started the first steam ferry boat. It was 
named the St. Clair. It landed at two places in St. Louis, at ^Isir- 
kot and Morgan streets. On this side near the foot of Trendley 
street. The '• Ibex" was the next boat, put on the line. This 
occurred in 1832. in the same year when the "Ibex" was built 
Samuel Wiggins sold the ferry to eight persons: Bernard Pratt, 
Sen., John O'Fallon, Adam S. Mills, Samuel 0. Christy, darles 
Mullikin, William C. Wiggins and John II. Gay. Mr. Andrew 
Christy bought an interest from Colonel John O'Fallon in 1834. 

The descendants of these owners are yet the principal posses- 
sors of the teriy property. From 1832 the ferry was conducted by 
the above company. In 18I-4 the boat " Icelander" was burned, 
date of building unknown. In 1852, a charter was obtained trom 
the State of Illinois, and the property consisting of boats and real 
estate valued at one aiillion of dollars, was represented by share 
stock issued for that purpose. 

The next boat built was the " Ozark" in the same year when 
the charter was obtained. The following steam feriy boats were 
afterwards added to the line: " Vindicator," " Wagonex'," "Gram- 
pus," "Illinois/' «• Wiggins," "St. Louis," "America," "I«few 
Era," "John Trendley," " Illinois No. 2," "Samuel C. Christ}'," 
•' Charles Mullikin," " Cahokia," " Belleville," " Edward C. Wig- 
gins," " East St. Louis," " Springfield," " Edwardsville," " Eam," 
" Louis V. Bogy," the tugs " H. C. Cievelin," " S. C. Clubb," "D. 
W. Hewitt. ' Several disasters occurred. The "St. Louis," blew up 
or the 21st February, 1851, and the " Vindicator," was wrecked in 
1871. In 1875, the " S. C. Clubb," took fire and nearly burned. 
Since then it has been repaired. 

The fact that through all these years the entire river front of 
East St. Louis has been owned by the same interest, has greatly 
conduced through unity of action in public improvements to the 
prosperity of both cities. 

The Company has expended one million of dollars in revet- 
ting the shore next to St. Louis. This is a striking instance where 
private interest operates to benefit the public. This magnificent 



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stone v\'harf, after tho above expense, r-.ontains 6,000 front fest. 
The value of each front loot is S250. Hence the wharf alone is 
worth $1,500,000. The Company own the river front of East St, 
Louis for four miles. Their lands here are worth several mil- 
lion dollars. They are all suitable for manufacturing purposes. 

The same natura localises which in the time^of Captain Piggot, 
led commerce to this point, and caused the eastern lines of wagon 
travel to terminate here, in the era of steam travel operated with 
a much more potent sway to fix here the termini of the railroads. 
The tirno-honored ferry company moved by the same farseeing 
principles of sagacity that influenced its founder, granted to the 
railway companies suitable grounds for tracks, depots, ware- 
houses, yards and machine &hop3. Thus they greatly aided east- 
ern commerce to reach the Mississippi, where nature designed it 
should J establishing and opening wide the Eastern Gate of the 
city, to the royal highwaj^s of eastern trade. 

This old Ferry Company is entitled to a large share of credit 
for the creation of the City of Bast St. Louis, which as we have 
seen, from two log cabins, erected in 1797, has grown, since the 
advent of steam travel to an established city of many thousands of 
inhabitants. 

Manufacturing interests have as a rule, been liberally dealt 
with by this company. And now as this the chief interest of East 
St. Louis requires fostering care they feel that in adhering to their 
generous traditions relating to great public interests in the dis- 
posal on liberal terms of lands lor manufacturing purposes, they 
are still benefiting the city which they have from the firsc en- 
deavored to build up. 

Colonel L. V. Bogy, at present United Statos Senator, associ- 
ated wi'th the commercial and mining interests of St. Louis and 
Missouri for a third of a century, was the President of the Ferry 
Company for eighteen years. Ca]^tain John Trendley has served 
the company continuously in various capacities since the 7th of 
May, 1825, which comprises a period of half a century. He is 
still engaged in active duty. 

The present ofiicors are as follows : 
N. Mullikin, President. F. M. Christy, Vice-President. 

S. C. Clubb, Gen. Superintendent. Henry Sackman, Asst. Supt. 
John Trendley, Agent. 

First Grade Da-ectors.— N. Mullikin, F. M. Christy, S. C. 
Clubb, J. H. Beach, Earnost Pengnet. 



EAST ST. LOUS. 



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CHAPTEE II. 

TIPPECANOE. 

On the 17th of Kovember, 1811, General "Wm. Henry Harri- 
son defeated the Indian's in the battle of Tippecanoe. This was 
hailed with joy by all the young settlements in the "West, this 
included. 

EARTHQUAKE. 

The town of Now Madrid, Missouri w^s, on the 16 th of 
Decmber, 1811, destroyed by an earthquake. It was so violent 
as to shake the country all through this region. Occasional shocks 
were felt for several weeks afterwards. 

At the series of shocks on the 16th of December, the whole 
valley of the Mississippi was shaken. Vast chasms were opened 
in the earth. Columns of water, carrying sand and coal shot up 
from these openings. The earth rocked, trembled, and at New 
Madrid, sunk below the river, destroying houses and people. In 
the country near, by the sinking of the earth, whole farms were 
destroyed, and hundreds of acres that had been well cultivated, 
were filled by feiid water, which was loathed by all living crea- 
tures. People fled away, glad it they escaped alive. 

Terrific hissings and undergound thunder appalled them, 
and lent speed to their flight by their horrible strangeness. 

Dense, black vapory cloud hung like a pall over the once fair 
earth, hiding it from the cheering rays of the sun, and redoubling 
the dreariness of night. 

Wild animals and fowls pierced the air with mournful cries. 
Shocks and quakes for fifty j-ears revisited New Madrid site. 
Congress partially remunerated the people for their losses, in 
land. This year 

THE FIRST STEAMBOAT 

on the Western waters, was built by Mr. Roosevelt, of New York, 
at Pittsburg. It was named the "New Orleans." He navigated 
it into the Mississippi. It was tied rfp to the shore when the 
earthquake threatened it with destruction, but it arrived at its 
destination. 

Thus tnese three things may be associated in the mind and 
recalled together. Namely : 

INov. 7th, Gen. Wru. Honrv Harrison won the battle of Tippecanoe. 
Dec. 10th, Earthquuke in Mi.<s. Valley, destroj iii<? New Madrid. 
"New Orleans," the llrst steamer on the Western rivers. 

Events in which all the Valley people are interested. 



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The commons of Cahokia extended from that village, accord- 
ing to the French mode of surveying their land, to the east 
bank of Cahokia creek. This creek bore the name in Frejich of 
Kiviero a I'Abba. The commons were pasture lands of Cahokia. 

Indeed the site of East St. Louis is comj)letely environed by 
old French settlements, dating from the year 1673-5, when 
Father Marquette the missionary, descended the Mississippi with 
Joliet and five men in canoes; and in 1675, at the town of Kas- 
kaskia, saying mass in presence of a gr&at Indian council took 
possesion of the Illinois country, in the name of Mary, mother of 
Jesus; and when SaSalle, exploring the great river to its mouth, 
with imposing ceremony then took possession of the youth for the 
king of France, naming it Louisiana. 

But, fis, our history has to do with these but indirectly, 
though of deep interest, to subserve the object of a <' History of 
East St. Louis," its resources, advantages and attractions, we 
can only refer to those French settlements i'> this incidental man- 
ner. A part of East St. Louis is built on Cahokia common. 

1817, ILLINOIS TOWN. 

This first town on the site of the city, whose survey is shown 
upon the records of the county, was laid out on the east bank of 
Cahokia creek in the year 1817. 

It was platted on land belonging to Messrs. John McKnight 
and Thomas Brady, merchants of St. Louis, who gave it the 
above name. 

• These lands were formerly" owned by Ettienne Pensoneaa 
and occupied and possessed by Yanorsdall. The town was plat- 
ted by Thomas J. Roddick, the attorney of the firm of McKnight 
& Brady. 

A part, or all of the lots were sold by Reddick, at his auction 
room in the town of St. Louis, after advertisement in the " Emi- 
grant," and '' Missouri Gazette," began in 1808, (now Missouri 
Republican.) 

The dates of this early transaction are as follows: On Mon- 
day the 3rd of November 1817^ the lots were sold at Ruction in 
St. Louis. Some lots were sold a few days before at private sale 
and some afterwards. On the 10th of November, 1817, they drew 
up a record of the whole transaction. On the 12th ot November, 
1817, the record was acknowledged before J. V. Garnier, Justice of 
the Peace for the county of St. Louis and territorj'- of Missouri. On 
the 2l8t of May, 1818, the Grovernor of Missouri Territory, Wil- 
liam Clark, by Fredrick Bates, Secretary of Missouri Territory 
certified in writing on the record that J. V. Garnier was at the 
time when he took the acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace 
as set forth. On the 22nd of Msy the instrument was recorded 
by John Hay, Recorder of St. Clair county. 

This town now lies in the south-east part of the city in the 
First Ward. 



EAST ST. LOUIS 



1817, ILLINOIS CITY 



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vras next platted and laid out on land onco known as a part of 
Cahokia commons. Tho whole area surveyed was about 369 
acres, including streets and public square. Thei-e were 63 squares, 
and 49G lots. This survey is situated in the north-west part of tho 
city, in Fourth Ward. The plat was recorded in 1825. 

1837, ST. CLAIR. 

This town was platted by the St. Clair county surveyor, John 
M. Mes.>*in£;er, in the employ of John L. 8t. John. The survey- 
or's certitieate was dated April 13, 1837, and the record made bv 
Mr. John L. St. John, on the 19th of April, 1837. On the 20th of 
the same month Mr. John Hay entered it of record. 

It is in the central part of the city and in the First and Second 
"Wards. 

1859, EAST ST. LOUIS. — (The town.) 

This was a subdivision of lands belonging to Samuel L. Barlow, 
Henry Chauncey, Wm. H. Aspinwall and Samuel W. Comstoek, 
lying within U. S. survey's, ISTo. 62G, in the name of Richard 
McCarty ; No. 625, in that of Jean F. Perry ; No. 131 and No. 132, 
in the name of A. Chouteau; No. 130, in the name of Jean 'St. 
Germain J No. 129, in the name of Gregoire Sarpy. It was plat- 
ted and entered of record on the 28th of November, 1859. 

It extends from central to north part of the city, in the Sec- 
ond and Fourth Wards. It includes a tract of land once owned 
by John Jacob Astor. See appendix lor McCarty tract. 

1865, FERRY DIVISIONS. 

These are mostly upon the Island. They are distinguished 
by the numbers first, second and third. 

In April, 1865, in the employ of the Wiggins ferr}'- company, 
Henry Holbrook, St. Clair County Survej'or, survej^ed and laid 
out seven hundred and thirty-four town lots under the name of 
Ferry Division of East St. Louis. On the 6th daj^ of August, 
1866, the third division was added. 

Id February, March and April, 1872, the compan}'- added 
their second division. As the land lies, their second survey was 
of the third pi.rt of their tract. 

1872, OEBIKE AND KASE ADDITION 

ot sixty-seven lots was platted and surveyed on tho 20th day of 
September, 1872. 

Variour; resurveys and sub-divisions have been made at other 
times by different owners. The details of which may be fouud 
on record in the county-seat. 



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Sufficient, by decailed outline, is here given to explain what 
is comprehended in the title of the city of East St. Louis. 

THE FIRST TWO DUELS IN 1817; BY BENTON AND LUCAS — LUCAS KILLED. 

As Bloody Island was not definitely located for some 
years, in either Missouri, or Illinois, while the settling of person- 
al disputes sometimes was done by an appeal to the code of hon- 
or, this island which became covered with trees, afforded a suita- 
ble battle ground ; a retired spot — a neutral field, and free from 
public view. 

The first noted duels which occurred here, two in number, 
were fought with pistols, by Col. Thos. II. Benton, afterward U. S. 
Senator for thirty years, and Mr. Charles Lucas U. S. attorney for 
the Territory of Missouri. They were both of St. Louis, and en- 
gaged in the practice of law. The duels grew out of harsh and 
reproachful language between the two at a trial in which they 
were engaged on opposite sides, and a controversy at a political 
meeting. 

The first challenge was sent by Col. Benton, after the trial. 
It was declined by Mr. Lacas on the ground that he was not ac- 
countable to any one for words used in professional debate. 

After the political controversary, Mr. Lucas challenged Col. 
Benton. He accepted. They met on the Island on the 12Lh of 
August, 1817. Mr. Lucas received a severe pistol wound in his 
neck. His surgeon took him from the field. The parties again 
met on the 27th day of September, in the same year, when Mr. 
Lucas fell — aged twenty-five, deeply lamented by his friends. 

1823, THE THIRD DUEL — RECTOR AND BARTON. 

General William Eector, TJ. S. surveyor of the three States, Illi- 
nois, Missouri and Arkansas, was absent from St. Louis, in Wash- 
ington D. C, when he was charged with corruption in office, by 
Joshua Barton, Esq., TJ. S. District Attorney, in the columns of 
the Missouri Kepublican. Thomas C. Ilecior immediately deman- 
ded of the editor the name of the accuser of his brother. General 
Eector. Upon receiving the name of Mr. Joshua Barton, Mr. 
Eector at once sent him a challenge. It was accepted, u;)d again 
on June 30th, 1823, the curtaining shades of Bloody Island, re- 
ceived a hostile party. At the first fire Mr. Barton fell and died 
in a short time. 

1830, THE FOURTH DUEL — BIDDLE AND PETTIS. 

This was fought by Major Thomas Biddle pay master of the U. S. 
army, and Hon. Spencer Pettis member ot the twenty-first Con- 
gress, both of St. Louis. It occurred on Friday at 5 o'clock p. m., 
August 27tb, 1830. 

Mr. Pettis in the political canvass of that year as candidate 



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for re-election, and against the U. S. Bank in his speeches, made 
cbari^cs against its president, Mr. Nicholas Biddle. For this his 
brother, Mnjor Biddle cowhided Mr. Pettis, under the following 
circumstances: 

Mr. Pettis had returned from the interior of Missouri, about 
the 25th of July, in low health from a billious attack. lie took 
lodging as usual at the City Hotel. 

Major Biddle hearing of his return, yet, perhaps, not know- 
ing of his ill health, prepared himself with a concealed cowhide, 
and went alone to the City Hotel. Next morning before others 
had risen, he enquired of a black waiter the way to Mr. Pottis' 
room. The waiter showed him the door, which was ajar. Upon 
the floor was a mattress on which Mr. Pettis was lying asleep, 
covered over with a sheet. Stripping off the sheet with one hand, 
with the other he applied to the person of Mr. Pettis the stinging 
blows of the cowhide. In a moment this brought a crowd to the 
piazza. Mojor Biddle hastened out of the hotel without staying a 
word. Great excitement ensued in the hotel and city, over the 
outi'age, which Mr. Pettis' ill health pr3vented his resisting or re- 
senting. He could but wait till his health was regained. 

During this time the senatorial canvass proceeded, and on the 
2nd of August, 1830, Mr. Pettis was reelected by a large majority 
to Congress. 

He expected that a meeting with Major Barton would result 
fatally, and being desirous of placing the salient features of the 
difficulty before the publ'C, should his expectations be realized, 
he went before Justice Peter Ferguson, and gave him a written 
sworn statement of the controversy. 

He was leaving the Justice's office to take this affidavit to a 
printer for publication, when Mr. Ferguson informed him that he 
considered it his duty to issue a writ on the affidavit, and put Maj. 
Biddle under bond to keep the peace. This he immediately did 
in the presence of Mr. Pettis and his friends. 

Mr. Pettis during the time showed that he intended to violate 
the peace, and the justice put him also under bond. Major 
Biddle came in at some part of the proceedings. He told Mr. 
Pettis that if he challenged him he would accept. Mr. Pettis 
promised to honor him thus, and on the next day sent a chal- 
lenge to Major Biddle, which he accepted. Major Biddle having 
choice of distance, by being the challenged party, fixed it at five 
paces, on account of his snort sightedness. They stood, it is said 
on the site of the present Chicago liound House, directly opposite 
east end of Biddle gtreet St. Louis, facing outward, with pistols 
ready. The words were given " One!" " Two!" " Three!" " Fire!" 
They wheeled and fired. Both were shot and mortally wounded. 
Both forgave the other's injury. Mr. Pettis died the next day, 
(Saturday, August 28th, 1830,) and was buried on Sunday the 
day after. Major Biddle lived till Monday following the day of 
the duel, when he died and was buried on the next Wednsilay, 
September 3rd, by his military associates from Jefl'erson Bar- 



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racks, with the honors of war. There were other less noted 
personal renconters on this Island. 

Since these bloody scenes are past and the locality is rife 
with the busy scenes and sounds of commerce, it is simply known 
as '' The Island," the 6U2;gestive adjective of Bloody being 
deemed no longer necessary, and thei-efore, being generally drop- 
ped from the nanie. 

We might add that the comprehensive name of 3rd Ward, 
since the incorporation of all the terrritoy west of Cahokia 
creek, including the Island, more generally designates that 
now historic loeallt3^ 

1834 — DUNCAN'S ISLAND. 

The deep, strong current that flowed past St. Louis hecom- 
ing quite sluggish, by reason of the great increase in the Eastern 
Channel, between Bloody Island and the Illinois shore a sand bar 
formed opposite the lower part of St. Louis. This was in the 
former deep channel. In time it appared above the water, caught 
drift's and more sand, and increased so much in size that in 1835 
It had in a generation attained such size that while supporting a 
strong growth of willow, eoltonwood and sycamore trees it was 
still extending its upper part, and threatning to thrust itself 
between the city and Bloody Island and destroy that part of St. 
Louis. It bad progressed so far Northward that no steamer could 
land below Market Street, and some boats had grounded directly 
in front and east of the Merchants' Exchange. 

A man named Duncan, laid part of the Island out into a 
cornfield, which he cultivated in 1830. It was hence named Dun- 
can's Island. It had other occupants. Congress was then peti- 
tioned to aid in its removal. Fifteen thousand dollars were appro- 
priated in consequence, for a preliminary survey and examina- 
tion of the rivers and harbor. Major Eobert. E. Lee, of the U. S. 
Engineer Corps was sent to superintend the work. One hundred 
thousand dollars more, was afterward appropriated by Congress 
to complete the work. Parties in Illinois town, however, seeing 
as they thought, that the improvements were against their in- 
terests, enjoined Major Lee from carrying out his plans. Dun- 
can's Island was a part of Illinois. 

1851-6, THE FIRST DYKES. 

In 1846-7 the St. Louis authorities and the owners of the 
land on the Illinois side projected a dyke, and agreed to extend 
it from the west side of Bloody Island to the main Illinois shore, 
near where Yaughan's d^'ke now is. It was begun in 1847^ and 
prosecuted at great expense, which was borne exclusively by St. 
Louis. 

In September, 1848, Governor French of Illinois, directed 
the State's attorney, at Belleville to ask the court there for an in- 
junction against the work on the dyke, which was yet incomplete. 



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Tho injunction was askod and granted on the ground of the inva- 
sion by St. Louis, of tlie State rights of Illinois. 

An appeal was taken by St. Louis to the Supreme Court of 
the Stale of Illinois. That tribunal expressing the opinion at its 
December term in 1848, that not the judiciary, "but tho legislature 
could properly determine what the interests of the State ot Illi- 
nois required in the ])rcmiscs, the Legislature ot 1818-9 was 
appealed to by St. Louis, in the celebrated case — Illinois vs. St. 
Louis. In January, 1^49, a joint resolution was passed, authoriz- 
ing the city of St. Louis to construct a highway over the dyke, 
then in process of construction. The work was at once re- 
sumed, and progressed until June, 1851, when the dyke and road 
made of stone and earth, near completion, were swepi away by 
the flood of that year. After the waters abated, however, in the 
fall of 1851, one-fourth of a mile north of the site of the first dyke, 
and nearly parallel, another, the present dyke, was projected. It 
was laid out under Mayor L. M, Kenneth, of St. Louis and City En- 
gineer Gen. Curtis. It was finished in 1856, in the same status in 
which it now is. Its cost was $175,000. It is a monument to the 
work and wisdom of St. Louis. The land belonged to the Wig- 
gins ferry company. 

Thus the channel on this side was stopped, and hv the in- 
creased volume and velocity of the St. Louis channel, Duncan's 
Island was removed therefrom and the port of St Louis restored. 

BREAKING GROUND FOR TUE OHIO AND MISSISSPPI RAILWAY. — W. D. 

In 1852, On the 9th of February in the presence of assembled 
thousands, ground was formally broken in Illinois on block 28, 
lois 3 and 4, near corner Main and Brady streets, by Mayor 
Luther M. Kenneth. On the corner of Fourth and Brady streets, 
the first depot was built. The place grew rapidly from that time 
on. In June, 1857, this road was formally opened, and connected 
with the Baltimore and Ohio line throiitih to Baltimore. 



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CIIAPTEE III. 



FIRST INCORPORATION. 



The place was incorporatGd as Illinois Town, on Fobi'uary 19, 
1859. Tlie act was approved on the above date in the private 
Laws ot Illinois. 

FIRST ELECTION. 

On the 4th of April, 1859, an election for town ofScers was held 
when 93 votes were cast according; to the poll books. The Town 
officers elected were: Trustees — W. J. Enfield, 78 votes ; Samuel 
W. Toomer, 90 votes; Andrew V/ettig^ 89 votes; Henry Jackeisch. 
87 votes. 

For Police Magistrate, there were two candidates — William 
IlamihoM, received 50 votes; Daniel Sexton, rec ived 43 votes. 

George Johnson, was appointed Marshal by the Trustees. 

The Trustees met on the 16th of Ap>ril, 1859, in a room on 
the second st^ry of the Western Hotel. Mr. Hamilton, who was 
elected Police Magistrate, was ex-officio President of the Council. 
J. W. Keinp^ Clerk, and Assessor, and D. Sexton, Treasurer. 

The defeated ca.ndidates for Trustees at the election received 
office by appointment at the hands of the victors. Now the Jack- 
soniun docirine prevails, i. e. " to the victors belong the spoils." 

May 17, 1859, Daniel Sexton's name appears as President of 
the Board. Hamilton's bond having been rejected and D. Sexton, 
having been elected. Mr. Jackeisch says ihat Hamilton served 
when elected. 

August 18, 1859, the Board passed a resolution to build a cala- 
boose, which siill stands on what is now known as the corner of 
Railroad and Second streets. 

On the 20th ot July, Sexton resigned as Trustee, and Samuel 
W. Toomer, was appointed by the Board as President. On the 
22d of July, Toomer was appointed Treasurer. 

On the od of August, on motion of Mr. AYettig, the commis- 
sion of Mr. Hamilton was accepted, and he took the chair as Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trustees. On the 24lh of October, 1859, 
President Hamiltoi was granted leave of absence for 8 weeks. 
He not having returned on November 21st, on motion of Mr. W. 
Enfield, Wm. Hamilton, was expelled from acting as President of 
the Board of Trustees, and as Police Magistrate of the Town and 
the office declared vacant. 

Henry Jackeisch, was appointed President pro tern. On De- 
cember 5, E. D. Walker, vvas appointed Street Commissioner. 



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APRIL 2, 1860, SECOND ELECTION. 



Tbero were 119 votes ca^t for the officers elected. Daniel 
Sexton, was elected Police Magistrate without opposition. 

For Town Marshal — E. D. Walker, received 58 votes; Geo. 
L. Johnston, received 58 votes. 

For Town Trustees— \V. J. Enfield, recived 39 votes j E.G. 
Bland, received 65 votes; B.E. George, received 91 votes; Timothy 
Canty, received 77 votes; S. AV^. Tooiner, received 37 votes; Henry 
Jackeisch, received 4 votes; Eichard Herman, received 4.3 votes; 
B. F. SikUing, received 9 votes; Frank Karle, received 1 vote. 

There were four Trustees to bo elected, those of the candi- 
dates ^ho received the four highest numbers of votes cast were de- 
clared elected. It appears the Police Magistrate was also Presi- 
dent of the Board. 

Daniel Sexton was qualified April 28, 1860, for the above of- 
fices and took the place of Mr. Jackeisch, President j?ro tern. On the 
14th of April, the latter was elected Treasurer. April 16, 1880, 
E. D. AVaiker, was qualified as Marshal. 

THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH ELECTIONS, 

August 30, 1860, Andrew Wettig, was elected Town Treasurer. 
He held this oliice until the organization of ihe City of East St. 
Louis. October 13, 1860, Eichard Hennesey resigned his office as 
Trustee, which he probably held in place of some one resigned. 

On the 20th of October, 1860, an election was held, at which 
Frederick Yyc, was elected to fill the vacanc}^. He received 70 
votes. His opponent H. Jackeisch, received 40 votes. 

The Fifih Election was held on February 21, 1861. 

NEW CHARTER, TOWN OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 

In the spring of 1861, at a sessicn of the Legislature, (see Private 
Laws of 1861). a new Charter was granted increasing the 
boundaries of the Town, from .vhatthey had been under the name 
of Illinois Town upon a vote of the people, 174 for, and 95 against 
the adoption of the New Charter, March 11, 1861. 

SEVENTH ELECTION. 

On April 1, 1861, an election was held for or against changing the 
name to East St. Louis, and for town officers. For changing the 
name 183, against 89. 

OFFICERS ELECTED. 

For Police Magistrate — highest number of votes to elect. J. 
B. Bowman, 185 votes; D. Sexton, 100 votes. 

For Town Marshal — highest number of votes to elect. John 
Hennesey, 185 votes; Samuel Hcnder 95 votes; Thos. D. Burke, 
7 votes. 



oo HiSTOEY OF 

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For President Town Council — hiirhost number of votes to 
elect. Samuel W. Toomer, 235 votes; R. C. Bland^ 51 votes. 

For Town Council — Four Councilmen to be elected, four 
highest numbers to decide. Candidates — John Monaghan, 185 
votes; Florence Sullivan, 192 votes; Frank Karle, 139 votes; 
Samuel G. Walker, 124 votes; B. B. G-eorge, 111 votes; Jas. Hazcn, 
103 votes; G. B. Sikking, 65 votes; Wm. Qiiilzow, 45 votes; Wra. 
E. Rose, 30 votes ; Henry Jackoisch, 10 votes ; Peter Eichter, 10 

votes; Beatri, l*vote; J. Herron, 1 vote; A. Lincoln, 1 vote. 

Some warm friend of Lincoln probably thought he was running 
for all the offices in the Union. 

The new Council was organized on the 22d of April, 186L 
Florence Sullivan and John Monaghan, drew the long terms, two 
yeai'S ; Frank Karle and Samuel B. Walker, drew the one year 
term. Samuel M. Tjount, was appointed Clerk. F. R. Hinze, As- 
sessor. John Hennesey, Collector. 

At a subsequent meeting on the 25fch of April, Louis A. 
Delorme and Edmond D. Walker, were appointed assistant As- 
sessors. 

THE EIGHTH ELECTION. 

For two members of the Town Council, on the 7tb of April, 
1862. Louis A. Delorme, 122 votes; John O'Connell, 103 votes ; 
Samuel B. Walker, 15 votes. The two first were elected. 

hennesey's resignation. 

July 7th, 1862, John Hennesej^ resigned the office of Mar- 
shall of the town. 

NINTH election. 

An lection was ordered for a new Marshall, and for one Trustee 
to be held the 1st Monday ol August, 1862. Henry Jackeisch was 
elected Trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of 
John Monaghan. Timothy Canty was elected to fill the vacancy 
caused by Hennesey's resignation. 

first plank sidewalk. 

Twenty-seventh of Augnst, 1862, this was ordered; consisting of 
two planks six inches wide, laid paralled, six inches apart, on 
south-east side of Collinsville Avenue, between Broadway ana 
Illinois Avenue. 

TENTH election, 25 OF APRIL, 1863. 

Ninety-eight votes polled, to elect the President of the town 
Council and one member of the same. H. Jackeisch polled 46 
votes for President; Nicholas Spanagel, 32 votes; S. W. Too- 
mer, 5 votes. Henry Oebike was elected member of Counscil 
without opposition. He received 97 votes. 



east st. louis. qo 

11th election. 

John O Reilly was elected Town Clerk on the 13Lh of June, 
1863. 

Second Sidewalk — July 6th, 1867, another sidewalk was or- 
dered like the fireit, on Illinois avenue, from Collinsville a\ enue to 
Sixth street, connecting with the first. 

Three Assessors — J. R. Bowman, Fredrick Hinze and Danuel 
Sexton, were appointed. 

Tax Collector — T. Canty, was appointed the 4th of June, 
1864. 

12th election 

held on Apiil the 4tb, 1864, For town Trustees — Henry Ocbike 
received 59 votes, John O'Connel, 60, were elected without op- 
position. 

13th election. 

For Market House. On the 25th of April, 1864, this election was 
hold ; 94 votes cast — 80 for and 3 against. Carried. 

The resignation of H. Juckeisch as President of Town Council 
took place on the 18th of August, 1864. The 29Lh of August, 
1864, the 

14th election" 

was held for President of Town Council. S. W. Toomer received 
67 votes and N. Spannagel, 44. 

The Market House resolution was continued and laid over till 
the iDllowing spring. 

Board of Assessors — On the 24th of November, 1864, J. B. 
Bowman, Mortimer Millard and B. B. G-eorge were appointed, as 
above. At the same meeting, hooks, ladders and ropes were or- 
dered as protection against fire. 

Construction of Sidewalks — At a meeting of the Town Coun- 
cil, on the 28th of November, 1864, the construction of new side- 
walks was ordered on CoUinsvillo plank road, west side, from 
East St. Louis Hou<e, to the town limits ; on south side of Wettig 
street from Main street to the Methodist church j on north side of 
Market street ironi Main to public school house, and on west side 
of Main, from the house of Louis VVeis to Broadway, and other 
walks were ordered repaired, 

THE PITTSBURG RAILROAD AND COAL COMPANY, 

having endeavored to obtain one of the streets for railroad pur- 
poses, the Town Council at its meetings, on the 12ih of December, 
1864, and the 4th of January, 1865, instructed its clerk to solicit 
the aid of representatives in the legislature, in endeavoring to 
prevent said C(/mpary from obtaining one of the streets, and 





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HISTORY OF 



resolved that the lecal representative, in the legislature of 
the State, convening in January, 1865, viz: Hon. A. W. Met- 
ealf, ol the Senate, and Hon. Messrs. Nathaniel Niies and John 
Thomas, of the House, be requested to oppose and endcavoi to pre- 
vent the passage of any law authorizing the said company with- 
out the concurrence of this town, to extend their road any furthtr 
into this town, than is now the case. Henry Jaclceisch, -Ksq, was 
commissioned to visit Springhcd and convey a copy of the resolu- 
tions to the said representatives, explaining to them the cause 
which prompted them, and solicit their attention to the desired 
amendments to the Town Charter, also to asBure them of the deep 
felt gratitude, with which the citizens of the town would witness 
their kind action in all laws which may come before the legisla- 
ture, affecting the present and future prospect of our promising 
town. 

CITY CHARTER. 

On the 17th of January, 1865, the Council appointed a com- 
mittee of four^ consisting of the president, and three others, 
Messrs. Oebiko, Bowman, Kase and Millard, to draught a 
City Charter. The Council at this session, aldO ordered that the 
census of the town be forthwith taken. A committee to take tne 
census was appointed as follows: Messrs. Kase, Feigenbuiz, 
Canty and George. 

The Charter Committee were instructed to report at the next 
meeting. They did so. After Siime debate of '.heir report, their 
draught of the new city charter was approved. 

A motion was lost that with the adoption of a new charter, 
the name of the town be changed to St. Clair. J. B. Bowman, 
on the 20th of February, gave a brief, but interestinj; history of 
the passage of the city charter through the legislature. 

The Draft Fund.— On the Slh of February, 1865, the Council 
appropriated one thousand dollars ($1000) for diait purposes. 

First Census of Bloody Island. —This was ordered by the 
Council on the 20th of February', 1865, to be taken. At the Coun- 
cil meeting on the 6th of March, the census report from that por- 
tion of the city (the Island) was shown to be about eight hundred. 

In 1865 at the First Election for Mayor, Hon. J. B. Bowman 
was elected for two years. This was ordered for, and occurred on 
April the 3rd, 1865. The following named ofhcers were elecieo : 
John B. Bowman, Mayor j Wm. G. Kase, Citj' Judge; John 
O'Connell and Michael Miirph}^, Aldermen of the First Ward; 
Henry Schall and James Hazeu, Aldermen of the Second Ward ; 
John Trendley and John B. Lovingston, Aldermen of the Third 
Ward. 

Installation of Mayor and Council. — This occurred in the 
Council Hall on the 10th of Aoril, 1865. 



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Tho First Ward includes ail territory south of Broadway, and 
cast of Cahokia creek to city limits. 

The Second Ward extends from Broadway north to Illinois 
avenue and from Cahokia creek east to Tenth street. 

The Third Ward includes all that part of the city lying 
between Cahokia creek and the middle of the Mississippi, and 
tho city limits north and south. 

The Fourth Ward includes that part north of Illinois avenue 
and east of Cahokia creek to the city limits. 



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HISTORY OP 



CHAPTER lY. 

The official oaths of the Mayor and Aldermen, as required by 
the City Charter were submitted, approved of, and ordered on file. 

On motion the Clerk was instructed to prepare official com- 
missions, properly executed and issued to said Mayor and Alder- 
men, pursuant to the provision of the City Charter. The new 
Council being found duly qualified and prepared to enter upon 
their duties, after some parting remarks of the president to the 
old Board of Town Trustees and of welcome to the new Board of 
City Aldermen, on motion, the Board of Trustees adjourned sine die, 

ORGANIZATION OP THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 

Mayor Bowman immediately called the City Council to order 
and delivered an inaugural addiess and recommended that a 
speedy organization be effected. 

The first motions were by J. B. Lovingston, who moved that 
Mr. John O'Eeilly be appointed Clerk pro tern ; that Mortimer 
Millard, Esq., be appointed city attorney ^^ro if ern, and that a com- 
mittee, to consist of the Mayor, Mr. Millard and three others be 
instructed to draft bylaws and ordinances. 

These were carried ; the last with an amendment by Mr. 
Hazon, that the three persons not named on said committee should 
consist of one appointed by the Mayor, from each Ward. The 
Mayor appointed from First Ward, Mr. Murphy ; from Second 
Ward, Mr. Schall j from Third Ward, Mr. John Trendley. Ac- 
cording to the City Charter the Aldermen then divided themselves 
by lot into two classes, for one and two year terms. 

Complimentary resolutions were passed, expressing to the 
old Board the thanks of the public and of the iiew officers f( r 
their taithful discharge of public duties. The Mayor then appoint- 
ed a committee to consult with the different railroad companies 
on the subject of police regulations, in connection with the city. 

ADOPTION or BY-LAWS. 

The special committee on By-laws and Ordinances reported 
through Mr. Millard at the next meeting of the Council, on the 
17th of April, 1865. 

Three Ordinances were read. Two were passed by Sections 
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relating to City Marshall was laid over till next meeting. Mr. 
Bowman from the same committee reported a series of by-laws 
for the government of the City Couneil. On motion of Mr. 
Lovingston, ihoy were unanimously adopted. 

STATED MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 

At the above session, the committee on ordinances were instruct- 
ed to roport at the next meeting an ordinance, fixing the 1st Mon- 
day in each month, at 3 p. m., as the time for the stated raeetirgs 
of the Council. Mr. John O'Eeilly was appointed City Clerk. 

APPOINTMENT OF STANDING COMMITTEES. 

At the meeting of the Council on the 24th of April, 1865, the 
Chair appointed the following standing committees, viz : Of ways 
and means; on claims; on streets and alleys; on revision and 
unfinished business; on engrossed and enrolled bills; on harbors; 
on police ; on market house and public buildings ; on fire depart- 
ment, and on Council. 

The Ordinance fixing stated meetings of Council, was passed, 
also one concerning the city seal, and one relating to licenses. 

Francis Witlram was appointed City Treasurer, and Timothy 
Cantj' City Marshall. 

The question of the constitutionality of the establishment of 
the city court, was ordered to be submitted to Messrs. Under- 
wood. Koerner and Snyder, of Belleville. In case they decide it 
to be unconstitutional, the Mayor was authorized to request the 
Count}^ Court to order an election under the general law fcr 
Police itagistrates. 

At this session, also on motion, it was agreed that the city 
subscribe §250 towards establishing a 

PUBLIC SQUARE. 

The fencing of this square was discussed. 

On the I9th of June. 1865, John O'Eielly having resigned as 
City Clerk ; M. Millard, Esq., was appointed to that office. Timo- 
thy Canty was appointed calaboose keeper. A complimentar3'' 
resolution was passed and transmitted to Mr. O'Eeilly, attesting 
efikiency and faithfulness as an officer of the Council. 

GRADINa AND PAVING STREETS AND ALLEYS. 

This important matter received the attention of the Council 
in March, 1806. Kesolutions were passed authorizing the same 
to be done. 

DRAM SHOPS — MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. 

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the dram shops was ordered to be paid over to the School Trus- 
tees. I 

PREVENTION OF OVERFLOW. 

Mayor Bowman at the meeting of the Co'ancil, August the 6t.h, 
1866, presented a communication on overflows. It was referred 
to the City Engineer and himself as a special committee. 

CHOLERA. 

In August, 1866, this dread scourge having appeared, the 
Mayor and Council took precautionary measures against it. The 
Ma3'or was authorized to establish a hospital in the Third Ward, 
and procure disinfectants. 

EAST ST. LOUIS GAZETTE. 

This paper having succeeded the Sunday Herald, issued its 
first number on Jane 28^ 1866. The city printing was awarded 
to its publishers, Macauly & Straub. 

CITY CLERKS. 

Mr. M. Millard, as City Clerk, gave place on December 
10, 1S66, to William O'Keil. 

Petition to Legislature For and Against Amendments to the 
City Charter. — A petition to the legislature for certain amend- 
ments to the City Charter, having been made in 1867, by parties 
Avhose landmarks were changed by the new survey, ordered by 
the City Government, for the relocation of streets, the Council 
en masse presented a cross petition against the amendment asked 
lor. 

East St. Louis Gas Light and Coke Company. — This company 
having been established by the charter in 1865, the citj^, as by law 
enabled, took stock therein to the amout of five thousand dollars. 
A warrant for two hundred dollars of this sum was ordered 
February 18, 1867, to be drawn on the City Treasurer, in favor 
of the Treasurer of the Gas Light and Coke Company. 

POLICE FORCE. 

Mr. Lovingston having presented a resolution establishing a 
Police Force, the same was unanimously passed. The Ma3"or 
was authorized to employ such police force as he deemed neces- 
sary for the city's safety. 

CHARGES AGAINST THE MAYOR. 

Charges of misapplication of cily street labor, by the Mayor 



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in causing his own lota to be filled up, having appeared, ho 
requested the Council lo invostigato said charges. This the}- did 
by the appoinimont of a committee. Having appointed the 12th 
of March. 18G7, in tho City Council Chaofiber, and publi«hcd the 
same in the East St. Louis Gazette, as tho time and place of inves- 
tigation, ihc committee took tho evidence under oath ot tho parties 
making the charges, and exhonoratod tho Mayor from all knowl- 
edge oJ or blamo in tho matter. Their report was unanimously 
adopted. 

Second Municipal Election — J. B, Lovingston elected. — Tho 
Second election for Mayor was held on April 1st, 1867. It result- 
ed In the oleciion of Mr. J. B. Lovingston. B}' 1 he first Charter 
tho Mayor's term of ofifice was two years. In 1867, however, 
amendments to tho Charter reduced tho time to one year. This, 
thereiore, was tho duration of Mayor Lovingston's term of 
oflice. 

Tho Metropolitan Police movement was put on foot during 
the latter part of Mayor Bowman's and the first part of Mayor 
Lovingstou's administration. 

A BOARD OF HEALTH. 

This Board was established June 3rd, 1867. Improvements 
in various parts of the city, and efforts toward amicable adjust- 
ment by arbitration of different interests marked the remainder 
of tho admiaistration of Mayor Lovingston. 

Third Municipal Election — J. B. Bowman elected. — On April 
6th, 1868, J. B. Bowman, Esq., was re elected by a decided 
majority to the Mayoralty. 

CONTRACT FOR MARKET HOUSE. 

On tho ISth of October, 1868, a contract between the Mayor 
and committee with Messrs. Niemes and Mathews, for the build- 
ing ot the market house, for 314,450 was ratified and confirmed oy 
the Council. A competent architect was appointed November 
16th, 1868, to superintend its erection. 

FILLING OF STREETS. 

Front and Third streets were in 1869, filled by contract of 
the city with Joseph Brown. Front street was filled from Dyke 
avenue to Christy avenue and Second street from Dyko avenuo 
to the south part of Bogy street. The contract was to- fill them 
to the highest grade of Dyke avenuo. 

Fourth Municipal Election — Vital Jarrot' elected. — On April 
6th, 1809, there was an election tor :iIayor and Aldermen. Vital 
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the votes cast, was declared elected. . The Council now consis- 
ted of Messrs. Doyle, McCormack, Murphy, Eyan, Stack and 
Yaughan. 

As all the city oiBcers had been vacated at expiration of 
terms by the new charter, which went i.ito effect March 26th, 

1869, Mayor Jarrot, by the consent, and with the concurrence of 
the Council, appointed new officers to fill the vacancies not filled 
by election. 

FUNDING THE CITY DEBT. 

On June 25th, 1^69, Ordinance No. 97 was passed in the 
Council, hy which was funded the floating debt of the city of 
East St. Louis. 

bowman's dyke. 

August 19lh, 1869, the Council instructed the Engineer to 
advertise for bids for grading this important causeway. Bids 
were received, but all rejected. The Street Inspector, under the 
direction of the City Engineer, was oi'dered to level said dyke so 
as to make it passable. 

Enlarged Improvements, Grade. — Mayor Jarrot communi- 
cated a paper to the Council, September 6tb, 1869, recommending 
that a permanent grade be established, and an enlarged system 
of impjrovemcnts be carried on. 

American Bottom, Lime, Marble and Coal Company. — On the 
28th of June, 1870, an election was held to vote for and against 
the city taking fifty thousand dollars of the stock of the above 
company. The votes stood, for subscription 236, and against 
subscription, 143 votes. 

Another election on the same sul^ject, held on August 4th, 

1870, resulted in the following : 565 votes for subscription, and 
76 against. The stock was accordingly taken. 

RETRENCHMENT. 

An Ordinance was adopted in the Council September 27th, 
1870, fixing the salaries of the city ofiicers, and reducing the 
expenses of the city government, and to abolish certain offices 
therein named. The resignation of Mayor Jarrot took place also 
on September 27th, 1870. 

Mr. Murphy, Acting Mayor. — September 29th, 1870, upon the 
meeting of the Council, four ballots were taken to determine who 
should be acting Mayor. At the fourth ballot, Mr. Murphy having 
received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared to have 
been duly elected acting Mayor. A resolution instructing the 
Clerk to give notice for the election of a Mayor was lost. In 
recensidering the vote accepting Col. Jarrot's resignation, and 
that appointing Mr. Murphy, acting Mayor, however, the 
Council instructed the Cieik to notify Col. Jarrot of their wish, 



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thai he withdraw his resignation. This was accordingly done 
and the ColoueJ, at the next meeting, again graced the chair. 

Fifth Municipal Election — Dennis Eyan elected. — The candi- 
dates for the Mayoralty at the election hold on the 4th of April, 
1871, were Donnis Kyan, Anton Cramer, Geo. W. Bracketl and 
Edwin R. Davis. All these gentlemen received a lair share of 
votes. But the numl-or required to elect, were cast for Dennis 
Eyan. He was, ihereiore, declared Mayor, and placed at ihe 
head of city affairs. 

The new government comprised, beside the Mayor's appoin- 
tees, Messrs. J. E. Bowman, Davis, Doyle, Gilchrist, McMullan 
Scullen, Tcfft and Vaughan. An inaugural address was delivered 
by the Mayor to the Council, upon its first meeting after the 
election. 

Cahokia Creek. — The bridge approaches and embankments 
on this ancient stream, formerly named by the French Eiviere 
a I'Abba, being threatened with removal by the washings of high 
water, Mr. Vaughun introduced in the Council on the 2fjd of 
January, 1872, a resolution ordering the same to be secured. It 
was passed. 

Public School Libary. — Hon. J. B. Bowman serving tne city 
as Alderman, sat on loot in the Council the movement which 
culminated in the fine Libary in East St. Louis. He introduced 
a resolution on February 15th, 1872, jiroviding room for a public 
school libary in the office of the Cit}* Attorney, Hon. L. H. Hite. 
This resolution was unanimously adopted. The School Board, 
however, failed to establish the Libary then for the schools. 

Sickness of 3rayor Eyan and appointment by Council of 
John McMullan, Acting Mayor. — When the C<mncil mot March 
23rd, 1872, Mayor E^an was absent by reason of sickness. 

On motion of Mr. Bowman, Mr. Scullan was appointed Chair- 
man pro tern. 

The Council then proceeded to ballot for acting Mayor. 
Messrs. Bowman, Doyle and McMullan, were nominated. Mr. 
Bowman positively declined acting even if elected. Nevertheless, 
his name was continued in nomination. Two ballots were taken. 
The last narrowed the choice to him and McMullan. It stood 
two for Bowman, and three for McMullan. The latter was 
declared appointed. 



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CHAPTEE V. 

Mayor Ryj^n having recovered his health resumed his duties 
as Mayor. 

FIRE WARDEN. 

This office was estahlished by the passas^e, in Council, of a 
resolution to that effect on the 27th of April, 1872. 

CITY OFFICERS. 

At the same Council meetings also, the following appointees 
to the city offices received their appointments : 

City Clerk— William O'Neil. 

Marshal — Michael Walsh. 

License Inspectors — M. Scott and T. Baugh. 

Treasurer — Benedict Franz. 

Collector — John M. Sullivan. 

Assessor — Patrick M. Sullivan. 

Calaboose Keeper — Eichard Hennesey. 

Market Master and Inspector of Weights and Measures — 
Daniel Sexton. 

Fire Warden — John Degnan. 

Attorney — Luke H. Hite. 

Board of Health — Edward Barrett, Alex. Fekete, Patrick 
_McCormack and Angus Gillin. 

Chief of Police — John W. Eonshaw. 

Lieutenant of Police — John Hogan. 

Ten policemen were also appointed, and the number limited 
to ten. 

Hon. J. B. Bowman, Mayor pro te7n. vice Eyan, absent sick, 
May 3, 1872. — Mayor Dennis Eyan remaining absent b.y reason of 
sickness, the Council, in executive session, on the above date, 
appointed Hon. John B. Bowman to fill his place. 

Cily Auditor. — This office was created, and its duties defined, 
in Council, by resolution presented hy the City Attorney. 

DEATH OF MAYOR RYAN. 

Eesolutions of respect to the deceased Mayor, Dennis E^'^an : 
— The death of Mayor Dennis Eyan having occurred, the govern- 
ment of this city passed appropriate resolutions. It was resolved 
that the City Council attend the funeral in a body, that the city 



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oflicos be draped in mourning for thirty days, and expressions 
given of the liii^h esteem in which the deceased had been held by 
all who knew him, and particularly those who had intimate rela- 
tions with him, and of the general and sincere sympathy for the 
bereaved family of the deceased. 

EAST ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 

The Legislature having on March 7, 1872, approved ''An Act 
to authorize cities, incorporated towns and townships to establish 
and maintain free Public Libraries and Eeading Rooms," the 
Council premisin'^ that such an institution is row wanted in our 
city, passed, July 16, 1872, Ordinance No. 193, as follows : 

An Ordinance creating the East St. Louis Library and Reading 
Room. 
WiiKREAS, By ai act of the Legislature of the State, in force March 7, 
1872, citie«, towji.s and townships are autliorized to establish and to maiuiaiii 
free Public Libraries and Heading E,ooms; and sucli an institution is now 
wanted in our city ; tiierelore 

Be it ordahicd by the City Council of the City of East St. Louis : — SeCTIOX 
1. That there l)e establislied and maintained in the City of East St. Louis, 
for tlie use and henetic of its inluibitants, a Public Library and Reading 
Koom, known as "The East St. Louis Public Librarj' and Reading Rooni."^..; 
Skc. 2. That a tax of one mill, annually, on each dollar of tlie assessed 
value of taxable property in the city, be levied and collected with the other 
general taxes of the city, for the purpose of a library fund. 

Skc. 3. That this ordinance be iu force and effect from and after its 
passage and promulgation, 
la.'jsed July 16, 1872. 
[SKAL.] WILLIAM O'NEIL, 

City Clerk, 
Approved July 16, 1872. 

JOHN B. BOWMAN, 

Actinof Mayor. 
The Library thus authorized was organized August 13, 1872, 
and opened February 5, 187-i. 

It is one ot the chief ornaments of the city, is well btocked 
with books, is well managed, and well patronized by the reading 
public. It contains busts of Lincoln, Douglas, Clay, Webster and 
Washington, in bronze. Its existence is owing largely to the 
energy and wisdom of Hon. J. B. Bowman, who is novs^ its 
President. 

Rules Relating to the use of Library and Reading Room. 

Section 1. Any inhabitant of East St. Louis may borrow— one volume 
at a time — such books as are allowed to leave the Library, by first ent«!ring 
Into bonds to the city of East St. Louis, for the use of the East St. Lonis 
Public Library and Reading Room, in the sum of lifreen dollars, with secu- 
riry, to be approved by the President, conditioned lor the prompt return of 
any book loaned to him or ber, in as good condition as leceived, in the time 
limited for its return ; and in case of default, loss or damage of such book, to 
pay the catiilogue value of the same. Upon the approval of such bond, the 
Secretary shall issue a card to such person, with his or her name inscriiicd 
thereon, permitting such person to borrow any work no»^ prohibited to be 
loaned, which pcrinit shall be iu force for one year. Persons not residents of 



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this city may enjoy like privileges by filing like botid aud paying the sum of 
three dollars. 

Skc. 2. The privileges granted in consequence of filing the bond men- 
tioned in the preceding section may be revoked, at pleasure, by the Library 
Board, or the security. 

Sec. 3. Each person entitled to draw books from the Library must produce 
his or her card whenever a book is taken, returned or renewed. If a card is 
lost, tlie person to whom it was issued shall notify the Librarian thereof, and 
two weeks from ^uch notification the Secretary shall issue a new card to 
such person. 

Sec, 4. Books may be retained two weeks, and may be once renewed for 
the same period. Application for renewal must bo made within the first 
■ fourteen days. Books of recent purchase, labeled ''Seven day book," cannot 
be retained more than one week, and cannot be renewed. 

Skc. 5. A fine of three cents a day shall be paid on each volume which 
is not returned according to the provisions of the preceding rule. 

Sec. 6. If any person shall lose or injure a book, he or she shall make 
the same good to the librarian ; and if the book lost or injured be one of a set, 
he or she shall pay to the Librarian— for the use of the I^ibrary and Eeading 
Koom— the full value of said set; and may thereupon receive the remaining 
volumes as his or her property. 

Sec. 7. No person shall be permitted to receive a book from the Library 
until he or she shall have paid all sums due by him or her to the Library and 
Reading Room, and make good all damages aud losses which he or she may 
have occasioned ; and no person shall receive a book until the one previously 
loaned be first returned. 

Sec. 8. Any person abusing the privileges of the Library or Reading 
Room, by unbecoming conduct, or by the violation of any of the by-laws or 
regulations, by defacement of a book', pamphlet, periodical or paper, by writ- 
ing in or on it, or in any other way, shall be reported to the Directors as soon 
as may be, and by them excluded from the Reading Room or I^ibrary, tor a 
time, or permanently, according to the nature and degree of the delincLuency 
or default; but in case of any gross offense the Librarian, Acting Librarian, 
or his assistant or assistants or representatives shall act summarily in the 
matter, and cause the offender to be at once excluded from tlie building, or 
take such action as the case may require, reporting the same to the Directors 
as soon as possible, for their final decision. 

ST. LOUIS NATIONAL STOCK YARDS. 

At the Council meeting on July 17, 1872, covonants of rautual 
advantage vs^ere given and received by the city and the above 
company. 

The company agreed to construct a magnificent hotel of stone 
and brick, to cost not less than one hundred thousand dollars, and 
to construct Stock Yards to exceed in importance, magnitude and 
completeness any like institution of the kind in this country j the 
hotel to contain broker's offices, commission offices, telegraph 
office, post offic3, and all modern conveniences for living and lor 
transacting business. 

And the city covenanted to abstain from infringing, by con- 
structing. streets, avenues or any city improvements, or otherwise, 
upon the survey of land No. 627, owned by said company, and 
devoted by them to the purposes of a trul}' great National Stock 
Yard. 

In testiraoiy of the above covenants, both parties thei-eto, 
the city of Bast St. Louis through Acting Mayor John B.Bowman 
and Wm. O'Neil, City Clerk, under an order from the City Coun- 



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cil to that effect, given on the seventeenth day of July, 1872, 
attested by the City Seal, and the St. Louis Xational Stock Yards 
aforesaid, acting through Archibald M. Allorton, their Manager 
and Attorney in fact, on the day aforesaid, interchangeably exe- 
cuted duplicate originals thereotL 

FIRST CITY AUDITOR. 

Mr. James W. Kirk was elected to the office of Auditor on 
the 17th of July, 1872. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

A Babcock Hook and Ladder Truck, costing S975, was con- 
tracted for by Mayor Bowman, and ratified by the Council, Janu- 
ary 22, 1873 ; s?id Extinguisher to have 500 feet of hose and two 
tongues — one for men and one for horses. 

CITY CLERKS. 

John O'Eeilly was appointed. April 10, 18G5, Town Clerk, 
and held the otnee till 3d July, 1865. 

Mortimer Millard was appointed Clerk on 3d July, 1865. 
Kemoved on 3d December, 1866. 

Wm. O'Neil was appointed 3d December; 1866, and holds it 
at the present writing. 

CITY MARSHALS. 

Timothy Canty was appointed 2-4th of April, 1865; held office 
till 1st April, 1871, when ho was removed. 

John Hogan was appointed on the let of April^ 1371, to fill the 
vacancy. 

Michael Walsh was elected April 29, 1871, and has held the 
office to the present time. 

CITY TREASURERS. 

Francis Wittram was appointed City Treasurer 14th April 
1865. Having removed to St. Louie, his office was declared vacant 
July 8, 1869. 

On that day Benedict Franz was declared Treasurer, and he 
still holds the office. 

EAST ST, LOUIS FIRE CO. NO. 1. 

A resolution (iJs'o. 302) ordering the purchase of a lot acd 
building of a house for this company was adopted January 22, 
1873. 



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GRADE AND SEWERAGE IN CAIRO, CHICAGO; NEW ORLEANS AND EAST ST. 

LOUIS. 

Acting Mayor Bowrian presented a report to the Council Sept. 
25, 1872^ in which he stated that he had, under their orders, 
engaged an acting City Engineer in the person ot Mr. T.M. Long, 
of Alton. He recommended hig appointment as regular City 
Engineer, and that the Council erapluy Mr. Long to visit Chicago 
and New Orleans, examine their systems of Grade and Sewerage, 
and With those examples before him to apply the best scientific 
knowledge and practical aid to devising and executing for East 
St. Louis the best plans of drainage and grading of old and new 
streets and avenues. Through Mr. Bowman's influence y)asses 
were furnished Mr. Long for the above purpose by the roads lead- 
ing to the cities named. Under the directions of the Mayor he 
examined the drainage and sewerage of those cities, and observed 
their practical effects. Eeturning to this city and being furnished 
by the Council with the needed corps of assistants, surveyors, 
draughtsmen and helpers, he gave the dykes, avenues, streets, 
alleys and sidewalks the benefit of his engineering skill, science 
and observation. The results are very gratifying. Streets which, 
by reason of private interests, ran in different parts of the city to 
different points of the compass, now run in one direelion, and are 
uniform. 

SIXTH MUNICIPAL ELECTIOX — HOX. J, B. BOWMAN ELECT. 

On the 1st of April, 1873, Hon. John B. Bowman received a 
majority of 500 votes for Mayor, and entered upon the duties of 
the office. 

At this election was submitted to the people, also, the ques- 
tion for or against "City Organization under the General Law." 
The vote stood 63 votes for and 503 votes against such organizti- 
tion. With the defeat of this question, also, was defeated that of 
minority representation in the Council. 

There were also elected at the election on Ist April, 1873, the 
following Aldermen : 

Anson Gustin, John Niemos, John Benner, John Doyle, 
Joseph Eyan, John Scullon, John Y. Tefft, Cornelius Buckley. 

This Council appointed the following gentlemen to the 
respective offices : 

Wm. O'Neil, City Clerk ; Luke H. Hite, Attorney; Benedict 
Franz, Treasurer ; Michael AValsh, Marshal; Richard Hennesey, 
Calaboose Keeper; Daniel Sexton, Market Master; James W. 
Kirk, Auditor ; Patrick Boyne, Fire Warden, Ist Dist. ; Daniel 
Branninghura, Fire Warden, 2d Dist.; John W. Eenshaw, Chief 
of Police ; John Hogan, Lieutenant of Police, and ten Policemen ; 
Patrick Canty, Street Inspector West Division ; William Benson, 
Street Inspector East Division. 



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This bocame necessary ia May, 1873. and was autlioi-izod by 
resolution. 

THE ST. LOUIS BRIDG15 COMrA>'Y 

Was bound to East St. Louis on July 1, 1873, in the sum of Rixty 
thousand dollars, to iciinburse pariic-s in East St. Louis whose 
land should be damaged by the building of the eastern approach 
to the Eads bridge, by the payment to the authorities of East St. 
Louis, lor the use of the owners of such damaged i)roperty,a sum 
equal to its value. 

In consideration of this bond the Council of East St. Louis 
granted the right of way over Crook and other streets. There- 
fore the eastern approach of the Eads bridge was accordingly 
located wliere it now is. 

COLLECTOR AND ASSESSOR. 

These offices were tilled at this same session of the Council, 
July 1, 1873^ by the appointment of John M. Sullivan to the first 
named, and of Patrick M. Sullivan tor City Assessor. 

PERMANEXT GRADE AND SEWERAGE. 

Mayor Bowman presented to the Council at its session, on 
July 1, 1873, a lengthy and forcible paper containing recommend- 
ations for the establishment of a public park — a public breathing 
place, as he happily termed it — and for the making of several 
other public improvements. This paper shows great depth of 
reflection and wise foresight into the future needs of the city. 
He also reccmraended means whereby these improvements could 
be made. The most important of these measures was that of fix- 
ing a permanent grade lor streets, assuring forever the health of 
the city, by placing the grade above the highest water marks, 
and establishing a grand and economical system of sewerage, weil 
fitted to rapidly remove all filth and causes of disease from the 
city. He presented an elaborate scientific report upon the Grade 
and Sewerage of Ea"st St. Louis, with estimatee of their cost by 
Messrs. Flad and Whitman. 

The figures and arguments adduced by the Mayor and by the 
scientific minds of the Messrs. FJad and Whitman u])on this all- 
important subject, on which so manj'^ others impinge, afford con- 
clusive proof that regarding the interests of the future, as well as 
of the present, tbe joint system of Grade and Sewerage thus 
recommended were correct. The report showed that to inaugu- 
rate this grand public work would involve grading Christy 
avenue and Missouri avenue from the river to the St. Clair county 
turnpike. Grading Broadway' iiom the creek t© Collinsville plank 
road. Gi'ading Collinsville plank road from Broadway to city 
li-e. Grading St. Clair avenue from Collinsville plank road 



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northwest to city limits. Building a bridge over the railroads on 
Missouri avenue. Carrying St. Clair avenue under the railroads 
between the Oollmsville plank road and the Stock Yards. Con- 
struction of the main sewer commencing at the river on Trendley 
street, through by Yaughan's dyke to Main street, to Broadway, 
to Collinsville plank road, and through this road to St. Clair 
avenue. The sewer to be constructed of brick^ and furnished 
with all necessary man-holes, street basins, and house lateral con- 
nections. The length oi the sewerage would be about 10,000 lineal 
feet. The scientific report estimates the total cost of this great 
work, lying at the foundation of the prosperity of the city, as 
follows : 

We estimate the total amount of filling required to grade the streets 
mentioned as beina: : 

Three hundred thousand cubic yards, at 35 cts. per yard $105,000 

Teu thousaud lineal feet of brick, sewer complete, at $9 00 (averao:e) 

per foot 90,000 

Cut at St. Clair avenue 10,000 

Bridge on Missouri avenue (iron) 24,000 

$229,000 
If the bridge be of wood it will be $'2,000 less. 

Total cost of improvement $217,000 

Thus bringing the cost to less than a quarter of a million dollars. 

Mr. Henry Flad, of the above firm of engineers, furnished the 
calculations for the construction of the Eads bridge across the 
Mississippi river. This was a gigantic triumph of scientific knowl- 
edge on the part of Henry Flad, joined to the engineering skill of 
James B. Bads, which in reality, at this point on the great river, 
binds the East to the West with ''hooks of steel/' and literally 
rivets their bands of union. 

The reports of the Mayor and Buginoers were adopted by 
the Council. 

Subsequently the Council passed a resolution announcing 
that they were ready to proceed with the work, by advertising 
tor bids, etc. At this point, however, an injunction was ob'.ained 
from the Circuit Court restraining the city from executing these 
plans for the present. So here the history of this vast work rests. 
It is proper t j state that Mayor Bowman for six years as Mayor 
and Councilman has labored earnestly to place the city upon the 
above firm foundation. East St. Louis, however, has this year 
not been troubled, while towns on the Ohio and elsewhere have 
been submerged by high water. 

In the territory of Holland the dykes there suiTOund the 
parts exposed to the sea. Inside of these are great surface sewers 
into which the country is drained. At projjer points on these 
outer drains are immense reservoirs, where the great drains con- 
vey their surplus water in the spring. These are emptied over 
the walled dykes into the sea, the means employed being pumps 
which are run by the wind. Steam might be used. This method 
of surface draining having proved economical and effective in the 
old world, migbt, with profit, be applied in the neW; where local- 
ties are in danger of inundation. 



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CHAPTEii Vr. 

BAST ST. LOUIS GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. 

This company having obtained tho right by Ordinance from 
the city to erect and operate gas works, lay down main, street 
and hvteral house pipes, and put up hi.np.s for the efficient light- 
ing of the city with gas, on July 23, 1874, petitioned the Board 
of Aldermen to assure to them the exclusive right of lighting the 
city ot East St. Louis. The petition was granted. 

EAST ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY. 

On January 17, 1872, the last of three ordinances was passed, 
which granted the right of organization and active powers, to 
construct a street railway from the bridge approach to the 
National Stock Yards, to the East St. Louis Eailway Company. 

The company was authorized to construct the road with 
single or double tracks, switches and necessary turnouts. The 
street on which the tracks were to be laid were as follows : Dyke 
avenue, Third street of the platted town of East St. Louis, 
Front street and Colhnsville i«lank road street or Collinsviile 
avenue, and others, with the reservation to the cit3\ that after the 
lapse of thirty months, if said street were unoccupied for railway 
by the said company, that the right might be granted to any other 
parties to go and occupy the same. 

The company fulfilled the contract of its charter on the 18th 
of July, 1S74, since when cars have been run every hour of the 
day. 

METROPOLITAN POLICE. 

The law under which this force was organized, was passed 
and approved February 22, 1867. 

After having organized and serving with efficiency up till 
September 17, 1871, it was then ascertained to have been founded 
on an error. Besolution No. 83, was passed in tho Council pro- 
testing against the so-called Metropolitan Police, and commis- 
sioners. 

Also a resolution was passed on February 5, 1868, John B. 
Lovingston Mayor, whereby all the acts done by any person 
under the supposed authorilj' of the so-called Police Commis- 
sioners of tho city of E;i8t St. Louis were illegal and void. Not- 
withstanding these and similar resolutions, a complete police 
force had been organized and employed as stated, for months by 
the so-called Police Commisoionors, who issued certificates of 

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indebtedness to the officers and men of the force so employed. A 
public sale of these certificates took place on January 5, 1869, 
and others subsequently. They brought only 24 to 2G cents on 
the dollar. 

The following extracts from the legal opinion of the Mayor 
as to the equity of the claims is of interest to the holders of the 
certificates. "It seems clear that the commissioners who issued 
these certificates, were not city, but State agents. The Supreme 
Court of our State says that they were not city agents, and 
could not bind the city. Their police was not a city, but a State 
police. These commissoncrs were appointed by the Grovernor, 
and confirmed by the Senate, without consulting our people; they 
had^ and were to have sole control of their police, and were not 
even required to account to the city for their expense, but solely 
to the legislature and a committee oppointed by it. 

Does this not make them a State police, and the cost of the 
same, a State expense ? Does it not fix the liability, to pay this 
police upon the State instead of the city ? Whether the State 
will pnj' this, the city cannot decide ; but to be just it should do so, 
in fact, should have done so long ago." 

THE MONEY VALUE OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 

As shown by the County Assessor's books, for that year was 
as follows : 

Amount of real estate $3,444,606 00 

Amount ot land and wharf. 1,440,245.00 

Amount of personal property 490,221.10 

Total amount of assessments $5,384,072.00 

Accretions west of Ferry Pivisiou and of Survey 786 § 102,000.00 

Grand Total $5,486,072.00 

[Auditor's rcpoit.] 

HIGH GRADE. 

Mayor Bowman, at a Council meeting on February 4, 1S75, 
reported that in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance 
!No. 250, he caused the City Engineer to make an estimate of the 
fill required to bring all the streets, avenues and alleys of the 
city to the grade proposed b}^ that ordinance, and the above 
Auditor's report to be made of the taxable propertj^ of the city. 
The amount of earth required b}" the above estimate, was two 
millions seventy-six thousand three hundred and twelve cubic 
yards. 

The Mayor reported also, that in anticipation of the grade 
work above, to be commenced under the ordinance establishing 
the permanent grades of the streets, he communicated M'ith 
Col, Henry Flad, of St. Louis, with a view of securing his services 
as Consulting Engineer, should the Council def-ire to avail them- 
selves thereof ; that as a result of such communication, he would 
submit the following letter, and proj^osal of Mr. Flad. 



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St. Louis, Fchruary 4, 1S75. 
IIox. J. B. BowMAX — Dear Si?-: In reph' to j'oirr favor of the 2n'l Inst., 
I beor leave to inform vou tliat I shall be <ria(l to assist you with professional 
advice whenever desired, as I have always taken a very lively interest in the 
progress of your city, whose fortunes are so cioselj' connected with those of 
our city. It is diflicult to name a delinite sum. as remuneration of services 
rendered, as long as the amount of work required of me is not known. But 

1 will ay-ree to give to your city my professional services, as advisor at $75 
per month. Drawing, etc., I wouid.iurnish at actual cost. 

Very Respectfully, 

Henry Flad. 

the injtinction of march 6, 1875. 

A communication to the Council of East St. Louis, dated 
March 11, 1875, relative to the writ of injunction throws a flood 
of lij^ht upon the whole proceedings, for or against high grade 
and sewerage. 

On the above date, Mayor Bowman submitted to the City 
Council, the following communication : 

" To the Honorable City Council — On Saturday noon, March 
6, 1875, a notice was served on me as Mayor, that an application 
would be made by John B. Lovingston, Maurice Joyce, John O. 
Butler, L. M. St. John and Andrew Wettig, through M. Millard 
atid Chas. Conlon, their solicitors, to the Hon. AV. H. Snyder, 
Judge of St. Clair Circuit Court at Belleville at 3 p. m., same day 
for an injunction against the cil}" proceeding under Kesolution 
No. 384, and Ordinance I^o. 256, relative to commencing the build- 
ing of se^'ers and raising streets to grade, etc. No time tor the con- 
vening of the Council intervening, I at once engaged Messrs. Tj. H. 
Hite City Attorney and E. A. ILilbert, for the city to resist the 
application. Arriving at Belleville, it was found that the Judge 
was not in the city, and by agreement the application was 
deferred to the same court and place, until Monday, March 8, at 

2 p. m. At the time and place last mentioned, all parties 
appeared. The petitioners prayed for an injunction to restrain 
the city from doing the work and making the appropriation 
described in suid resolution and ordinance on the following three 
grounds : 

1. That Section 4, Article JII, of the City Charter, limits 
the right of the city to contract debts to §100,000.00, and being 
already so much in debt, for want of available credit, should not 
be permitted to engasre in the contemplated work. 

2. That Section 12, of Article IX, of the State Constitution, 
limits the power of the city to five per cent, on the assessment of 
taxable properly in the city as equalized by the State Boad of 
Equalization. They represent this to be S3,675,G99.00, thus 
allowing an indebtedness of §183,783.40 100. They claim that Uie 
present debt of the city already exceeds that amount, claiming 
ttiat unpaid Treasury Warrants afloat are part of the debt con- 



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templated and limited by the State Constitation, just as much as 
the funded, bonded or interest bearii g debt of the city. 

3. That the work of sewering and raising streets to grade, can 
only be done at the expense of special assessments and not as a 
general improvement at common cost. 

The short time allowd to meet the allegation in the petition 
did, however, not prevent us from presenting by concise and cor- 
rect statements, made under oath, by cii}' officers J. H. Kirk, 
Auditor; Wm, O'JNeil, Clerk; B. Franz, Treasurer; John M. 
^Sullivan, Collector, and H. Koch, City Engineer, having charge, 
care and custody, of the respective accounts and records of the 
cit}'^, the true condition of things relative to the city, involved in 
the case at band. These statements show : 

1. The value of taxable property in the city, ascertained by 
the last assessment made thereof, by the County Assessor for the 
State and county taxes, to be $5,486,072.00; hence the con titu- 
tional credit of the city — five per cent, thereon, is $274,308.60-100. 

2. The interest bearing bounded debt of the city to be $143,- 
500, and the floating claim against the city, represented chiefly 
by Treasury Warrants issued during the last year, not to exceed 
$57,000. 

3. The tax for 1874, now in course of collection, levied for 
the purpose of paying these floating claira.s, etc., together with 
delinqueu-cies from the tax levy for 1873, to be $91,000, and the 
special assessments made by the City Engineer in pursuance of 
the charter for macadamizing Front street, etc., to be $68,000. 

The facts alleged- the figures so given, were not controverted— 
Were not questioned. The fitte of the injunction seemed to — and 
did, depend upon the conscruction of the constitutional limitation 
on two points : 

1. Whether the assessment of the taxable proerty in the city, 
made by the County Assessor or the equalization of it by the 
Board of Equalization should govern in determining the debt the 
citv had a right to contract, the one made tuis value $5,486,072, 
and the debt limit $274,303.60, and the other this value $3,675,- 
669.00, and the debt limit $183,783.45 

2. Whether Treasury Warrants, outstanding and provided for 
with a regular tax levy now in course of collection, present any 
part of the debt contemplated by the constitutional limit spoken 

of. 

The Honorable Judge gave it as his opinion that the equalized 
value governs, and not the assessment made by the County As- 
sessor, and that Treasury Warrants are ot the kind of debt limited 
by the State Constitution to five per cent, on the value of the 
taxable property in thecitj', thus plainly, by showing that the city's 
constitutional credit at this time, is only $183,783.45, and its con- 
stitutional debt, not only $143,500.00 in bonds, but that there 
must be added the following claims of $57,000.00, making a total 
of $200,000.00. This is a greater sum than allowed by law under 
his holding. Therefore the city not having any available credit 



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by the light of his construction of the law ho granted the injunc- 
tion. I will add, that in granting the writ, tht; Judge suggested 
that in h's opinion, the first and ihiid ground of the pelioners 
were untenable viz: That Section 4, of Article III, of the City 
Charter did not limit the right of the city to incur debts for 
corporate purposes to §100,000, and that the proposed sewers and 
raising of streets to grade, need not be made with special assess- 
ments, but as indicated in the ordinance as a general in^prove- 
ment, at common cost, and that only the want of legitimate credit 
at the disposal of the cit}', as he held, prompted him to stay, for 
the time beim;, a task so necessary for the health and security of 
the people of East St. Louis. 

The injunction is a temporarj'" one. It may be taken up for 
final disposition by the court which granted it, at Siuy time, on 
five days notice. Or it may be suffered to lay over to the next 
general term of the St. Clair Circuit Court. The petitioners were 
held to give and gave bond in sum of §5,000 with Vital Jarrot, as 
security. 

The news of the injunction at once spread widely, and, as a 
matter of course, deterred a groat many bids in preparation for 
the work. Concerning bids which are nevertheless reported, I can 
only suggest that they, with the accompanying deposits, be at 
once returned to the respective bidders. 

It is my opinion that the subje'^t of the injunction deserves 
prompt action and pursuit to the earliest possible adjustment of 
the questions involved by the court of last resort in the State. 
It is for you to say whether or not such shall be done. 

Respectfully, 

J. B. Bowman, Maj-or. 

SEVENTH MUNICIPAL ELECTION. 

This was held on the 6th of April, 1875. It resulted in the 
election of Hon. Samuel S. Hake, to the office of Mayor. His 
opponents were Messrs. Vaughan, Stack and Jennings. Mayor 
Hake received a plurality of 211 votes ov»r Patrick Vaughan, 723 
votes over Patrick H. Slack and 800 voles over Thomas C. Jen- 
nings, and a majority of 123 votes over all. John M. Sullivan 
was elected Collector ; Tiir.othy J. Canty, jr., was elected Asses- 
sor; Maurice Joyce was elected Alderman from the First Ward; 
John Niemes from the Second Warc4 ; Nicholas Colgan from the 
Third Ward; Christian Eohm from the Fourth Ward; Wm, 
O'Niel, Clerk and Michael Walsh, Marshal. 

The remaining Councilmen who already held ofHce. were as 
follows : John Doyle, Patrick W. Vaughan, John Benner, John 
V. Tefft. 

CONVENTION OF THE COUCIL. 

On May 4, 1875, Mayor Hake convened the Council, and 
communicated to it, an excellent address upon taking the chair. 



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He recommended retrenchment in expenses, and endeavors on 
the part of the eleventh Council looking toward the advancement 
of the city of East St. Louis, to her destined place, that of second, 
to but one in the State. 

A series of rules for the better regulation of the business of 
the Council were then adopted. Since then the present adminis- 
tration has gone vigorously forward in the vigilant discharge of 
its official duties, A most noticable feature of permanent im- 
provement is the placing of stone crossings wherever needed 
through the city. These add greatly to its beauty and to its 
desirability as a place of residence. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

Tliesnn is tlie source of heat and light. The heat ot our coal was at first 
derived from the sun wiien tlie vei^etation was growinj? whieli formed tlie 
coal. It has been latent heat for ao^es, and now, wlien freed, <^ives li<^ht and 
heat— the sun's liglit and heat — to our parlors. — [Prof. Mitchell. 

THE FIR5T COAL IN THE UNION WAS FOUND IN ILLINOIS — HEAVIEST BED 
OF COAL CLOSE TO EAST ST. LOUIS.j 

The State of Illinois is all — except the extreme north, the 
west edi^e, and the southwest part — underlaid with coal. Nowhere 
is the supply greater nor more convenient than in the Belleville 
di.strict. The first discovery of coal in the United States was 
made at Ottawa, Illinois, by Hennepin, in the latter part of the 
ITih century. St. Louis obtains its principal supply of bituminous 
coal from what is known in coal regions as the Belleville district, 
in St. Clair county, Illinois. It is brought to Bast St. Louis by 
the St. Louis and Illinois, commonly known as the Pittsburg 
Paiiroad. This Railroad is only 12 miles long, from E.ist St. 
L)uis to Belleville, but it intersects the western boundary of the 
coal measures at Ccnterville, six miles out from East St. Louis, 
and runs six miles through the coal field. St. Clair county con- 
tains 450 square miles of coal, or three-fourths of the county, em- 
bracing all the central and eastern portions, with a thickness of 
about 300 feet of the lower and mo-^t productive of the coal meas- 
ures, embracing five coal seams, only two of which, however, 
appear to be of economical value at this time. 

In 1871 there were transported by this railroad, from Belle- 
ville and Centerville to East Louis 361,630 tons. The last United 
States census reports the coal production of St. Clair County at 
798,810 tons. This is, therefore, by far the most productive, and, 
in that respect, the most imporlani coal reaiioi. in Illinois. The 
thickest coal seam out-crops in the river blutf and along the west- 
ern borders of the coal measures in the southwest portion of the 
county. The dip is very moderate, not more than five or six feet 
to the mile, and is in an easterly direction, or a little north of east, 
and in consequence the coal lies deepest below the surface in the 
eastern portion of the county, and crops out to the surface near 
East St. Louis. The Belleville coal seam. No. 6, is the principal 
one worked, and it was probably the first ever worked in the 
State. Its natural out crop along the bluffs, in such close prox- 
imity to St. Louis, called attention to its value at an early day. 
Its general thickness in this county ranges from five to seven feet, 



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and it has a solid limes'^one roof, so that it can be worked with 
safety and in ibe most e'jonomicul manner. 

Tliis coal is 2;enerally quite regularly stratified, and the two 
upper layers, which vary in their aggregate thickness from 16 to 
24 inches, are much the })urest in quality. It is usually separated 
from the lower coal, and sold at about three cents per bushel 
higher, as a blackiimiih coal; thus: heating coal, six cents; 
blacksmith coal, nine cents per bushel. 

The lower coal contains more sulphuret of iron, but the qual- 
ity varies somewhat in various mines, and no general description 
would be applicable to every locality. Sometimes there is a foot 
or more of bituminous shale above, and a thin bed of clay shale 
below, but sometimes botb are absent, and it is by no means un- 
comm'"n, either in this or the adjoining counties, to find coal 
directly enclosed between two beds of limestone origin, conl£ ining 
fossil shells in abundance, which is a very unusual occurrence 
elsewhere. The main coal seam, No. 6, has been opened at many 
points about Belleville, and the river bluffs back of the out crop. 
It is reached by twenty -five shafts, sunk to the depth of from 50 to 
150 feet. In Alma shaft the coal was found at a depth of 170 
feet below the surface, and the seam is seven feet thick. It is the 
same thickness at Mascouuih, at 132 feet deep, and 6* feet thick 
at Urbana or Freeburg, and about the same depth belo iv the 
surface. 

In the southern part of the county the Belleville coal is 
opened at many places along its out crop, and retains its full thick- 
ness of about seven feet. Everywhsre it seems to be from six to 
seven feet thick. 

It will be seen that the cog,l measures underlie all the high- 
lands in the county of St. Clair, except a narrow belt from three 
to five miles wide across the southwest border, and the land is 
also among the most productive agricultural lands in Southern 
Illinois. The analysis of the Belleville coal shows the following 
results : 





Specific 


Loss in 


W'tof 


Moist 


Vot'e. 


Carlioti 




Carbon 




gravity 


coking 


coke. 


use. 


matter 
33 8 


in coiie 


Ash. 


coal. 


Casoyv'e mines.. 


1.304 


39.8 


60.2 


6.0 


55.2 


5.0 


55.3 


PfeiliT's mines... 


L293 


44.3 


55.7 


S.5 


35.8 


51.2 


4.5 


57,5 


Bellcvilleniiiies.. 


1.293 


45.0 


55.0 


5.5 


39.5 


49.6 


5.4 


54.6 


Dill & Kn!ii>p's.. 


1.340 


42.51 


57,49 


4 43 


38.8 


44.4S 


13.9 


54.28 


Churchill mine.. 


1.315 


45.40 


54 60 


6.00 


39 40 


45.70 


8.90 


52.63 


Belcher mines.... 


1.296 


44.(.ifi 


5G.34 


8.10 


35.56 


47,71 


8.60 


54.50 



Prof. Worthen says that from the analyrtis, the Bellevill ' coal 
will compare favorably with the average of bituminous coals from 
other localities either of this or adjoining States. 

CHEAP COAL IN EAST ST, LOriS. 

Coal 18 cheaper in East St, Louis by the cost of transportation 



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across the Mississippi. It is brouiifht in wagons and cars on a 
down ^rade, six or oigiit miles fioiu the out crop in tlie bluffs to 
East St. Louis. The process at ihe mines is as follows : 

Af'er the coal is mined the cars' are drawn horizontally up grade 
into the mine by a mule. The mule is detached; the cars tilled, 
started oui of the mine by hand, and carried down grade by their 
own weight to a trestle at the entrance. Here they are dumped. 
Coal ears receive the falling oal. These are standing ready to 
receive it. When full the coal irjin starts and moves a consider- 
able distance down grade, unaided. Engines are then attached^ 
which complete the transportation to East St. Louis. 

ORIGIN OF GOAL AND METHOD OP ITS FOR-MATION. 

The opinion now held by Geologists is that the vegetatim 
f'-om which coal of the carboniterou.s age originated was similar 
to that of tae reat bogs now found in nearl}^ all parts of the 
world. The examination of coal (loes not afford evidence of its 
having been produced from the flattened trunks or more solid 
parts of trees, bui it abounds in fragments of the leaves and occa- 
sionally extremities of branches and fronds, or leaves of the kind 
which retain the stalk when they fall off. In anthracite coal, the 
process of liquitact on and carbonization, or perhaps it should be 
called crystalization, has obliterated all traces of the oi-iginal 
vegetable matter; but, as we go farther westward, we find some 
kinds of biuiminous coal which appear to be composed of minute 
leaves and tibres matted together. This vegetable matter was of 
frcoh water species. A large part of ihe vegetation of iho coal 
era or age of the world is composed of ferns of incredible size, 
sometimes measuring 60 feet in height. Therefore, as to the 
composition of the coal slates (next the coil) you mn-it disbelieve 
the evidence of your own eyes, to deny the presence of vegetaole 
matter, where they had their origin, for you see in them the 
daguerreotyped likeness of plants, leaves, roots, trunks and 
branches. But as to the coal itself, the evidence to the naked 
eye, of its vegetable nature, is not apparent, as it does not show 
im})ressions of plants like the slaie rocks. The slate found in 
coal is supposed to have been mud. 

"Coal, it may be easil}" demonstrated," says Prof. Newberrj^, 
"has been derived from the decomposition of vegetable tissue, 
which represents one of the different steps in the formation of 
coal. Peat is biiuminous vegetation, generally mosses and other 
herbaceous plants, which, under favorable circumstances, accumu- 
late in marshes called peat bogs. Lignite mineral coal, retaining 
the tox.ure of the wood from which it was formed, and burning 
with an cmpyreumatic odor, is the production of a similar 
change effected in woody tissue, and, because it retains to a greater 
or less degree the form and structure of wood, has received the 
name it bears. 

Peat is the product of the present period, and lignite is found 



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in deposits of recent geological age. In the older formations, 
these carbonaceous accumulations are still further changed, and 
form bituminous coal. When special and local causes bave ope- 
rated to carry the change still further, as when the beds of coal 
have been involved in the upheaval of mountains, and heat acted 
upon it, it is converted into anthracite. When this metamorpho- 
sis has been carried still further, the result is plumbago, or black 
lead." So that this is the genesis and genealogy of the lead pen- 
cil, with which these paragraphs about coal are written. Its par- 
ent, a fern ; its age, thousands of years. 

The foumlaiion of the above article on coal is extracted 
chiefly from "The Coal Eegions of America," by James Macfarlane, 
Ph. D., 1875. 

D. Appleton & Co., 549 and 551 Broadway, New York. 

COAL CAN BE DELIVERED TO ANY PART OP EAST ST. LOUIS ON RAILROAD TRACK 
OR SWITCH AT SIX CENTS PER BUSHEL. 

There are 80 lbs. in a bushel ; 2,000 lbs. in a ton. There are 
as many bushels in a ton as equal the number of times which 
2,000 lbs. contain eighty lbs. ; equals 25 bushels; 25x.06'=$1.50 
per ton, far cheaper than cord wood in the forest regions. It can 
be delivered to the manufacturing establishments of Bast St. Louis 
at from oue-third to one-half leas than it can be delivered west of 
the river. 

Tracks can be run from almost any road to any furnace door. 
Coal can be contracted for by the year, and thus this great want 
be conveniently and cheaply met. 

RULE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF COAL IN THE MINE. 

The miner's rule for the above measurement is that in a square 
mile, equal to one section of coal, one foot thick, there are one 
million tons of coal. 

All that is needed, therefore, to estimate the number of tons 
of coal under a township or county, is to reduce it to square miles 
and multiply the num.ber by the number of feet, showing the 
thickness of the coal bed. The product will be the number of 
tons under the land. 

St. Clair county contains 1,0H0 square miles. The coal bed 
underneath is 7 feet thick. This is seven million tons of coal to 
the square mile. This, multiplied by 1,030, gives Seven Billions, 
Two Hundred and Ten Millions Tons of Coal which underlie the 
grand old County of St. Clair. 

KNOUGH COAL TO LAST FOR AGES. 

All thia coal is of easy access by rail on a down grade to the 
very doors of the furnaces of the East St. Louis manutactories, 
costing but $1.60 per ton delivered. 



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COAL MIXING IX DETAIL— BY A MINER. 



59 



Appended is a document which appeared in the Belleville 
Democrat, durint]^ August, 1875. which is of interest to coal pro- 
ducers and consumers. It will be seen that an immaterial advance 
of a cent per bushel in price is asked by this union : 

Platform and Constitution of the Keorganized Miners of St. Clair 
and Adjoining Counties : 

Resolved, 1st. That we demand three cents per bushel for mining, and 
will take no less. 

2d. Tliat we havo fair and Just railroad weight, and are paid twice a 
month — upon the 5tli and 2v/tn of each month. 

3d. That no coal mine shall have a screen to exceed one inch between the 
bars of said screens. 

4th. That we will not mine coal for any coal miain<»' company that will 
sell coal for Jess than seven and one-half cents per bushel in the coal yard on 
this side of the river, and eight and three-quarter cents in the yard on the 
Missouri side, and eleven cents per bushel wh^-n delivered in or with 
wagons. 

5th. That we will not mine any coal for any coal operators who will sell 
coal to another operator when his minei's are on a strike, when the same is 
made a known fact. 

We have given the above resolutions due consideration, and 
do not see in them anything that is of an extortionate or tyranni- 
cal character. It is a known fact that less than three cents is not 
a living price for mining coal, though we will admit that three 
cents is more than we have had for the last nine months ; but in 
viewing our condition we also know that we have been going in 
debt all the time, and many of us cannot get out of debt in the 
next twelve months, even at three cents and steady work. As 
for steady work, we know that we cannot all get it ; and let me 
ea}^ right here, that if the grocery men and butchers were to stop 
giving us credit, we would be starving, or else stealing for a living. 
These statements are facts. This being the case, most assuredly 
we are entitled to a fair price for our labor. The 2d, 3d, 4ih and 
5th of our resolutions are to protect the three cents for mining. 
Past experience has taught us that when the warm reason comes 
there is not work for us all. Then we forget our brother coal 
miner, and only think of self. Then in order to get steady work 
we come down on the price. Some coal boss will say to the miners 
that are working for him, "Boys, there is a contract to be let, and 
if 3'ou miners will take two and three-quarters or two and a-half 



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HISTORY OF 



cents per bushel, and say nothins; about it, I can get that contract, 
and you will have steady work." The answer will be, "all right ; 
go ahead and get the contract." The contract is then taken at a 
reduced prict? that will not allow three cents for mining. Then 
go to these men and ask them how it is, and they will reply, "I 
don't know; we are getting district prices." That is the begin- 
ning of the reduction of price, and the downfall of our Union. 
Now, I claim that a uniform price in the market will show every 
one of us that the coal is sold tor a price that is not too high for 
the consumer, and will give the miner three cents for mining. 
But when sales are being made every day that show clearly to 
other coal operators that they cannot sell so low and save them- 
selves, it will naturally bo supposed that the miners are mining 
cheaper, and generally they are right; so there comes sirife and 
contention with the coal operators, and also with the miners that 
are at work at some other mine. They cannot see how it is that 
such a coal operator can make anything on that contract. If he 
does, he is bound to cheat las men in some way. The tact of the 
case is, his miners have told him what to bid, or at least they told 
him what they would do — how much cheaper they would mine if 
they could get steady work. So the contract is taken at such low 
figures that no other coal operators can sell coal at the same price 
without losing money. If he doerj not sell at the same price he 
will lose his trade. So he begins to grumble with his miners, 
stating that there is something wrong. By this time there is 
another contract to let. Then they go for it at the least price — 
perhaps a half-dozen bids in, with an understanding with the men 
that they will mine under price if they get the contract. When 
the l')ids are opened they find that their black bids are nowhere 
by the side of soma other black bids. After they and their black 
bids are defeated, then their miners curse and fume and swear 
that they can dig coal as cheap as any blacklegs that ever lived, 
80 down goes the price for mining, and down goes the price in 
market. When we look fairly into the coal business we perceive 
that the whole cause of the price coming down is through the 
miners and operators, not through the consumer. That taken for 
a fact, we can safely say if we fail to get a living out of the trade 
it is our own fault. The consumers must have coal, and will pay 
a living price for it if we will demand it, but we must not demand 
ai unreasonable price. We must at all times take into consider- 
ation the condition of the country financially, and base our de- 
mands- in proportion. Now, three cents is a verj* low price for 
mining this coal, and seven and a half in the yard is cheap on 
this side of the river. Eight and three fourths is cheap on the 
Missouri sid3 in tne yard, and eleven cents delivered is equally 
cheap. For proof: 



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Three cents for mining' 3 

Two and a half ccMits Tor frei<j:lit 2h 

One half cent for vo^-alty | 

One and a-half cents for hoisting and margin IJ 

In the yard on tins side 7J. 

Shipping across tlie bridge l| 

la the yard on the Misscm-i side 8| 

Three and a half cents for hauling and delivering this side of the river 7^ 

Hauling from river 3| 

Delivered by wagon 11 

These are the ideas I have in roj^ard lo the miners re-orga- 
nizing their Union ; that iy, if done eo as lo be of any force. 
There is a ]iossible chance for the coal operators to form an ex- 
change. It they should do so, and conduct it honestly, and not 
oxtort on the consumer, it would be a good thing. 

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CHAPTER Ylir. 

INLAND OIL WORKS. 

" Oil the wheels of commerce." 

" Keep your lamps trimmed and burning." 

Gunneson, Hamiltou & Miller, office 212 N". Third, St. Louis, 
Mo. Branch of "Buckeye Oil Works," Cincinnati, Ohio. The 
East St. Louis works situated north of Indianapolis and vSt. Louis 
railway. These works were finished by A. Gunneson & Co., in 
Seplennber, 1870. Manufacture all sorts of lubricating and burning 
oils, candles and greases for railroad and other machinery and 
head-light oils for engines. 

''east ST. LOUIS FLOURING MILLS. 

'' Thou art happier than I, O, miller ot the Dee." — [King Henry. 
Charles Hezel, Proprietor. 

This was first built by F. H. Krite and A. DeClausel, for a 
saw mi!< in 1855, near the Belleville depot. It was built under a 
grant by the Belleville and Illinois railway. There was a tank 
ill the nriill that held 80,000 gallons of water. From this the rail- 
road company's locomotives were supplied with water at $5 per 
day. DeClausel sold in 1861, to Gruber, Schenneberg & Heckler. 
In 1861. it was changed by them to a flouring mill. 

In 1865-6, a large four story brick mill, of substantial build, 
with complete machinery for a first-class flourin'? mill, was built. 
It was operated by Notley, Krite & Co. In November, 1866, this 
tine structure burnt down, involving a heavy loss to the pro- 
prietors. Immediately a new building was erected on the same 
site. It was operated by the same firm until 1868. In 1868, the 
mill was sold to Charles Hezel, by whom it has since been con- 
ducted to the present time. Mr. Charles Hezel has since expended 
for improvements on the mill more than its purchase cost him. 
He has put in it additional machinery of the latest improvements, 
and erected a grain elevator in the rear. Also one of the best 
kilndrj^ers in the AVest, for dr3nng corn, in the manulacure of his 
celebrated kilndried corn meal. 

CAPACITY. 

This mill is able to make from 275 to 300 barrels of flour, and 



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63 



over 400 barrels of kilndned corn meal per day. It has seven 
run of stones. Three for meal and four for flour. 

In five years, eighty thousand dollars have been expended 
by Mr. Ilezel for the single item of labor, in the conduct of bis 
business. He hopes that some changes in the location or' the 
tracks of the S' Louis and South-Eastern railway, now running 
near the mill, from Missouri avenue to Broadway cutting off and 
often blocking out custom by cars on ingress and egress to and 
from the mill by way of Division avenue and Third street. Mr. 
Hezel complains bitterly that the city allowed the tracks laid on 
ibe above route. Believing as he does that his business is thereby 
severely injured. 

CO-OPERATIVE RAIL MILL. 

This m'll was built for the purpose of making railroad rails. 
It was established in 1874, and is situated by the East St. Lonis 
Relay Depot. Vital Jarrot, President; Antony Wolter, Secretary. 
When erected, the company of which the above gentlemen are 
officers, leased it of the proprietors for three years. 

The builders were Mr. Adolphus Myer, Girard B. Allen and 
O. B. Fill_y, of St. L.nus. One hundred and fifty handsale em- 
ployed. Between §6,000 and 87,000 is paid on every month for 
labor. Much of their iron ore they get from Chattanooga. This 
ore make a very tough rail. A part of the material is also 
brougiit from Missouri. Coal at low rates is brought by rail 
from the Illinois bluff to the foundries. 

THE CAPACITY OF THE MILL 

is sevontj'-five tons of rails per day. It will be a matter of in- 
terest to the reader, unless an iron man, to know that an iron rail 
lasts onlj' about six years use. Consequently the rails on a road 
of that age must be replaced. 

AVhen the immense cost of this work is taken into considera- 
tion, amounting almost to the reconstruction of a new railway, 
each six years, beside ordinary expenses, the wonder is that the 
rates for travel and freight are so low. The old ii'on is mostly 
rerolled at the mills. Thus much of the cost of relaying the 
tracks with iron is saved. 

THE FIRE or 1873 

Broke out 29th November, m Mr. Lovingston's planing mill 
sidewalk, while he was in Europe. The mill was consumed, with 
two million feet of lumber, with the office and papers, and sheds. 
Also steam water tank, used for supplying tenants of Mr. Loving- 
ston. Total loss, S75.000. One-third w^as saved by insurance. 
Mr. Lovingston now has a lumber yard containing all kinds of 
lumber. 



ni HISTORY OF 

COOPER SHOP WANTED. 

Between East St. Louis Flouring Mill and Missouri avenue, 
Charles Horn, proprietor, emploj'ing some twenty-five coopers, 
and doing a good business^ was compelled to stop, by reason of 
the strike, in 1^71. 

A good shop, requiring at least twenty coopers, could be well 
sustained b^' the local and suburban demand. Staves and hoops 
are shipped here from the woods of Indiana, freighted across the 
river to St. Louis, there made up into barrels, then re-freighted 
back to East St. Louis side to the mills. This double co^t could 
be saved and made by the manufacturer of the stuff into barrels 
on this side. To manage it would require a good judge of mate- 
rial, tJ purchase supplies, make sales, attend to outside business, 
and keep the accounts straight and prosperous. The managers 
should have a junior partner — a practical cooper, not afraid of 
work, yet afraid to sleep by it — to oversee affairs and make things 
iivel3" inside the shop. 

RAILROAD FROG AND CROSSING WORKS. 

Corner Main and, Bond Streets, Established by Elliot & Bro., 

March, 1874. 

These works were established to manufacture Rail Road Cross- 
iv.gs and Frogs, of a peculiar style, under Patent of G-eo. Elliot. 
The Frogs and Crossings are 'iiade of steel rail, combined with a 
Wrought Iron Frame, held together with strong Bolts transversely, 
thus allowing the Frog to lay flat on the ties, without any cutting 
into the timber. Their business has so much increased since the 
commencement that they are now doing business with ail of the 
Roads running into St. Louis and East St. Louis, and a great 
raany Roads North and South. The Main Bailding, or Machine 
Shop, is 32x90, and other oui buildings, with neat office, 12x14. 
The principal material used by them is Steel Rail, made in Troy, 
iS'ew York, c i which they use about Ten Tons per month. Their 
machinery consists of Engine, 12 horse power, two large Drill 
Presses, Bolt Cutter, Fan, Lathes, &c. They generally run seven 
Forges, with an average of eighteen men. The works are sup- 
plied with water irom a IJ inch pipe driven thirty feet into the 
ground, the end of which was filled with small holes, and then 
wrapped tightly with small gauze, thus keeping all sand out. 
They chose the locality on account of the easy shipment of goods 
to any Road in the country, by the East St. Louis and Carondelet 
Railroad, which bounds them on the west. They use the Big 
Muddy Nut Coal for blacksmith purposes, and Illinois coal for 
muking steam. The firm changed on the 12Lh of March, 1875, to 
H. &. H. Elliot, on account of the decease of Geo. Elliot, who died 
before reacb'tiix the full benefit of hia valuable inventions. 



EAST ST. LOUIS. 



BAST ST. LOUIS ICE HOUSES. 



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James A. Smith, Proprietor. 

Are situated on corner of Cahokia and John streets. The 
above streets form a triangle of two and a-half acres, with the 
old east bank oi the Mississippi, which bounds the tract on the 
west. On this well located tract, the buildings, two in number, 
150x75 feet and 32 feet high, divided into four compartments 
each, were erected by Mr. James A. Smith, in the fall of 1874. 

OAPAOITY. 

These monster houses hold nineteen thousand tons of ice. 
Mr. Smith's ice houses have a track connecting with St. Louis 
and Southeastern Kailway ; also one connecting them with the 
St. Louis, Terre Haute and Indianapolis Eailroad. 

MISSISSIPPI lOE. 

The supplies are obtained from the Mississippi river. Each 
winter he commences taking ice from the river, when it is frozen, 
to ibe thickness of ten inches. 

HOW OBTAINED. 

The same kinds of plows, elevators and all other tools used 
on the Hudson river in obtaining ice are here used on the Missis- 
sippi for the same purpose. 

FILLED IN ELEVEN DAYS. 

These houses were filled lasi winter in the short space of 
eleven days. The force used in cutting the above ice was two 
hundred men and sixteen teams. During the summer but four 
men and twelve teams are needed. 

MARKETS. 

These are St. Louis, East St. Louie, Mobile, Shrevepert, Tex- 
arkana, Dallas and Belleville. A large quantity, requiring one 
hundred and sixty teams to deliver it, wae cut last winter by Mr. 
Smith for the St. Louis pork packers. Also large quantities at 
wholesale were sold by him to other parties in St. Louis, includ- 
ing ice dealers, ,.i .-r, Ln, ... n .n.'i .11 

oiJj hfliiv/onil v/<j(f .biJuilu;;' tHiodiin 

' Mr. Smith, owns Jfj St. Louis two ice houses of half the capa- 
city of those here, from which he supplies his ret&il trade. 

£ 



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KfEP COOL. 



To do ih's 3'0ii have but to ieavc your order with Mr. Smith 
to have his rnammoth ice van call daily at your residence, or place 
of business, and leave ico in quaniities to suit your desires. 

WHOLESALE'fetJP*LXES 'io OTHER CITIES fiY iiAlt; ''' 

Mr.'Smilh is prepared *to^sfff>'ply'pl*rti!e^in distant cities wiitf-' 
ice in any required, quaiititie?, by railroad. Southern dealers 
usually have ice depots which are supj)lied from these houses dur- 
ing the summer, to order — one or two cars at a time. Iceat pres- 
ent here is four dollars per ton. Orders received will receive 
promptattBntion, and willbeifiii(led;k,t oncei'Oii ijicii'uii • •. 

:, ;■•! i', f! ■.'. i -■'^- :'i';l m >i h'ci- . . » ^^ 

EAST ST. LOUIS AND CARONDELET BAILWA'¥i'''^''>f''^<J' t**"*^* 

Oonspicucus among the East St. Louis enterprise* is the 
above named Eoad. Its termini are aS-' its name indicates. Its 
Superintendent, Mr. J. W. Jones, is also Superintendent of the 
Union llailway and Transit Company. The Kirkwood branch of 
the Atlantic and Pacific Koad runs through G-eneral Grant's farm, ■ 
brings stock from the west and southwest to its terminus opposite ' 
East Carondelet, whence it is transferred by the car ferry ot the 
Transit Company across the river to their railwaj', and promptly 
run up to the Slock Yards, housed, fed and watered. This Com- 
pany also own the grounds and tracks at the Kolay Depot. 
Hence this Union 'Railroad and> Transit Compan}^, owning the" 
Bast St. Louis and Carondelet Railway, and bointrpurol}'' an East 
St. Louis enterprise, constructed, owned, oificored, manned and 
managed here, is the only means ot.-intorcourse by rail between 
East Carondelet and the National Stock Yards, and between the 
East and the West at this pQii),i. jRfii bsllft oiow «r>riwo.i saojiT 

•>ot yvu< ' ' loi eriT '•' •''• 

'jmmn- railroads. yAn ba^ ■ 'lii' 

The following named Railroads radiating from East St. Louis 
began operations here, in the order o4' time named, as follows : 

1st. The Illinois and St. Louis Coal Road. First built of 
wooden rails, in 1837, by Ex- Gov. Rej'^nolds and others, from 
here, six miles, to the coal bluffs, and extended six miles further 
to BeUeville, in 1870. Horse power was first used;'!^ >'<i'! fii-uutoc 

2d. Ohio and Mississippi Eailroad. .Ground bWk^ fti'' lfl§^21^ 
Terminated here, June, 1857. '' '"'^ '' • "';' :';•>''' -:''>ii^ 

3d. Terre Haute, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, now known 
as the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. 

4th. Illinoistown and Belleville Railroad, now known as the 
Cairo Short Line. This road now runs to DuQuoiB,i,oaitho.. Illi- 
nois Central, and connects there for Cairo. wd u^^>^^^ Jo x^i- 



EAST ST. LOUIS.; gj 

6th. The Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad. Its first 
termini were at Chicago and Alton. 

6th. The St. Louis, Yandalia and Terre Haute Eailroad, 
now known as the Yandalia Line. 

7th. The Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad, now owned 
by and known as the Toledo, Wabash and Western. 

8ih. The Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis Railroad. 
This Road comes in from Alton Junction, on the track of the 
Yandalia Line. .^ 

9ih. Si. Louis and Southeastern, which has several branches. 
10th. The American Bottom Lime, Marble and Coal Company, 
now known as the East St. Louis and Caroudelet Railway. It 
has a branch running to Falling Springs. 

11th. Cairo and St. Louis Railroad. General Offices, 304 N. . 
Fifth street. H. R. Pays'on, President} F. E. Canda, Yice Presi-,.., 
dent and General Manager; W. S. Searls, Secretary and Treasurer ;,.[. 
S. E, Harve}-, Auditor : J. L.Hinckiy, General Superintendent 
J. A. Wentz, General Freight and Passenger Agent ; E. L. Sar- 
gent, Cashief and Paymaster; C. Ritaema, Purchasing Agent. 
Ticket office, S. W. corner Fourth and Pine streets ; S. H. Knight^ 
Ticket Agent. Freight Depot, 312 South Second street; W. 
Crouch, Agent, This Company commenced running on 15th 
September, .1873, to McLeansboro, 111,, 90 miles ; there tapping,, 
the celebrated Big Muddy coal fields — which coal is the best for j 
smelting purpo&es in the United Stales. The company soon,,., 
formed a contract to transport coal fur three years to supply the., 
South St. Louis furnaces with fuol. The road was chartered in,,' ; 
1865. Hon. C. H. Howland obtained from S. Staats Taylor,) y, 
President ot the Company, the contract to build the road between ,j. 
East Si. Louis and Cairo. Mr. Howland sold his contract to,,;^ 
Messrs. H. R. Payson & Co., of Chicago, who began the work of,^ , 
grading in the fall of 1871, The towns, counties and cities pledgeiif,;; 
upward of one million dollar.-* to aid the contractors in building;,., 
the Road. Only a small portion of said subscriptions have been ;( 
paid, the contractor?, Payson & Co., were compelled to build 
the road, equip and run it chi. fiy from their own resources. The 
balance of subscriptions will probablj^ be obtained. The road,, 
was completed for traffic through to Cairo last April. Its entire 
length is 146^ miles. At present it does not enter the Union 
Depot. For the year ending May 31, 1865, its gross receipts were 
$267,884.94. Operating expen.ses were about 60 per cent, of 
receipts, During the same year (ending May 31) the coal traffic 
ran very light, owing to the closing of most of: the furnaces at St. 
Louis. 

The Toledo, Wabash and We^tprin "Bail way. The Gjeqeral, 
Offices of this Road are at Toledo, 6h\o. The General officers 
are : Hon. J. D. Cox, President; W. B. Corneau, Treasurer; R. 
Andrews, General Superintendent and Chief Engineer; Allen 
Cox, Auditor ; W. L. Malcolm, Passenger and Ticket Agent ; Jno. 



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HI8T0KY or 



M. Osborn, Freight Agent, Dayton, O.; K. H. Wade, Superin- 
tendent Eastern Division, LaFayette, Ind. ; C. W.Bradley, Super- 
intendent Western Division, Springfield, 111. ; C. E. Candee, Gen- 
eral Agent, St. Louis, corner Olive and Main ; J. S. Lazarus, 
Western Agent, St. Louis; E. H. Coffin,Ticket Agent, 408 Walnut 
street, St. Louis. The Eastern terminus of this Railway is at 
Toledo, Ohio. The main line runs westward to Quincy, Illinois. 
There are branches from the main line at various points, leading 
to others, as : Keokuk, Peoria, Quincy, Hannibal and Blooming- 
ton. A branch irom Decatur to Bast St. Louis was built in the 
years 1869-70. This branch is 110 miles long. From East St. 
Louis to Toledo it is 430 miles. The branches traverse from 800 
to 900 miles of distance. The East St. Louis branch was opened 
for traffic in July, 1870. The Passenger and Freight Depots are 
located on Front street, above high water mark of 1858. They 
cover an area ot land of 400 feet, fronting the river, by 1,000 feet 
deep. From the time of opening to June 13, 1875, the terminus 
of this part of the Road remained at East St. Louis. 

The great Eads Bridge across the Mississippi was dedicated 
to travel 4th of July, 1874. On June 13, this Company, having 
joined with others in the erection of Union Depots in both this 
city and St. Louis, where a general exchange of travel between 
the East and West could be effected, the passenger trains of this 
road, with others, ran for the first time across the Mississippi. 
The Union Depot, in St. Louis, is at corner Twelfth and Poplar 
streets. Freight billed for that city is landed here by rail, and 
wagoned and ferried across the river by the St. Louis Transfer 
Company. This Company has its own warehouses in St. Louis, 
where consignees receive their consignments of Freight. If goods 
are received here, billed via the Bridge, this Company delivers 
them, here, to the Union Railway and Transit Companj'^, which • 
receive consignments of not less than a car load, and transfers 
them by rail across the Bridge to the Union Depot, in St. Louis, 
where they are received by the consignees. The employes of the 
Boad receive from the Company, every month, in salaries, the 
large sum of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. Other roads 
transact their business here on the same general principles as the 
above. 

BANKS. 

"Tbou shoulds't have put my money to the Exchangers."— [Bible. 

There are three banks in this city. The East St. Louis Bank is 
on corner of Missouri and Collinsville avenues. Capital, $100,000. 
Vital Jarrot, former Mayor of East St. Louis, is the President; 
Theodore Meuman is the Cashier, the Directors are : Vital Jarrot, 
John B. Lovingston, Henry Oebike, B. B. George, Wm. G. Kase, 
Henry Jackeisch, Jos.Boismenue, G. P. Mueller, Thos. Winstanley.' 
The Bank receives Current and Time Deposits, and Jillows inter- 
est on the latter when the time is fixed. :,' '""^' 

• 1 . // ; T 



i. > ■ .1- •! -in 

EAST ST. LOUIS i»Q 

THE WORKINQMEN's BANKING COMPANY 

Is composed of ilio following gentlemen : A. B. Pope, President ; 
E. W. AVider, Vice President j Wm. A. Wilte, Cashier. The 
Directors are M. Ileim, A. B. Pope, A. Boecklemann, J. Yoch, E. W. 
AYider, Charles Rohm and John B. Lovingston. They do a Gen- 
eral Banking and Exchange business, allow interest on time 
deposits, buy and sell exchange, and attend promptly to eollec- 
tions. The Bank is on Broadway, between Fourth and Main Sts. 

MESSRS. HASTINGS 4 CO.'s BANK 

Is located at the National Stock Yards, and affords good facilities 
to dealers there for the adjustment of values. 



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HIS'iORY or 



CHAPTER IX. 

EA8T ST. LOUIS ELEVATOR WAREHOUSE COMPANY. 
" Seed time and harvest shall never fail."— [Bible. 

This company was organized in 1867^ pursuant to an act ot 
the G-eneral Assembly, approved March 6, that year. At that time 
the gentlemer\ composing it were E. B. Gage, T. H. Piper, George 
Eisenmier, H. C. Cole, Robert Hoxey, Andrew Eisenmier and 
others. Since then some of these gentlemen have withdrawn. 
With those who remain are George and Andrew Eisenmier. 

General Officers. — R. Hinley, President; Hon. J. B, Loving- 
ston, Yice-President; Adolphus Lo^ ingston, Secretary. 

Directors. — R. Hinkley, J. B, Lovingston, James M. Francis- 
cus, John N. Booth, Chas. F. Orthwein and M. A. Wolff. 

Five hundred thousand dollars was the cost of the ground 
and building. The capacity for storing bulk grain is one million 
of bushels, and 50,000 more in packages, as sacks of grain or 
barrels of flour. 

The land property owned by the East St. Louis Elevator 
Company is five hundred feet front on the Mississippi river by 
four hundred feet deep. By its charter it may own one thousand 
feet front by one thousand feet deep, and any other lands within 
three miles of Bloody Island, which may be needed to carry out 
the objects of this act. The company may condemn these lands 
under the authority of the State given to public works. 

The land owned is on the line of the dike built to improve 
the harbor in 1842, by Capt. Robort E. Lee, Chief Engineer of 
TJ. S. army. 

The Elevator was erected in 1867. Being below the bridge 
it ships all grain by river for the South, and by lail for the East. 

The St. Louis Elevator is located above the bridge. Its 
capacity is one and a half million bushels. It has perfect 
machinery and is finely located, in the center of the business por- 
tion of St. Louis. 

The Jetty System of Capt. Eads, will increase the river busi- 
ness to a great extent, and with it tho whole business of handling 
grain through elevators. Now, whereas the cost of carrying a 
bushel of grain from St. Louis to Liverpool is fifty cents of its 
worth, then when ships of heavy burden enter the Mississippi the 
cost of the same carriage will be but thirty- two cents. 

Other contrasts in favor of elevators, between this and for- 



EAST SiT .LOUIS. 



71 



mer modes ot storing and handling grain are still more marked, 
than the above. In time elevators hero will be counted by dozens. 
In Juno, 1874, the East Si. Louis Company Jeaeed their 
Elevator to the St. Louis Elevator Company for three years. 
The advantages to shippers, receivers and bu3'er8 of grain of this 
arangemcnt are plain. U]) to 1874, to ship grain across the river 
cost Irom $6 to §10])or car load. Now the receipts for grain at 
either elevator, being honored by the managing company at both, 
the cost ot transit across the river is saved to shippers from the 
East or West, annihilating the Mississippi as far as cost to the 
shipper is concerned. Forraerl3' in borrowing money on ware- 
house receipts the cost per car for crossing the river was 
deducted, whereas now it is saved by the holder of the receipt. 
Parties interested will easily see this advantage. The officers of 
the St. Loui:^ Elevator are S. G. Sear.i, President; John Jackson, 
Vice-President; D. P. Slatlery, Secretary. These gentle^men 
have isued the following explanatory eire ilar^ with which this 
article is closed. h;.- : ■• ;*■, 

St. Louis and East St. Louis Grain Elevators— Storage (^apacitj', Bulk 
Grain, 3,500,000 bushels— Storage Capacity, Packages, 200,000. 

The St. Louis Grain Elevator Company having based the 
East St. Louis Elevator, and assumed the entire control of same, 
respectfully" call the attention of Grain Dealers generally to the 
unrivaled shipping facilities afforded by this arrangement. Until 
fu' ther notice, Eegular Grades of JBulk Grain may be withdrawn 
from either Elevator, on Warehouse Receipts issued by the other, 
subject, however, to suspension from ice or other causes. Our 
facilities for shipping bj' Rail or River, to tho West, East or 
South, are excelled by no Elevator in the Country Our Eleva- 
tors connect with all tho Lines of Railroad coming into St Louis 
on both sides of the River, and Steamboats and Barges can load 
along side at the lowest stage of water. The Memphis and 
Vicksburg Packets land only at our East Elevator, so that Grain 
Buyers in our Houses have tbe benefit of the large Southern In- 
land Order Business. In the St. Louis Elevator we have a series 
of small bins, constructed to hold one car, which we give our 
patrons the privilege of using for ten daj's, by which means (^Irain 
may be sold by sample or inspection ; and our Warehouse 
Receipts lor Graded Grain being good at either Elevator, (thus 
making direct connections between the East and west,) the 
expense of shipping from either side the river is avoided. This 
alone is an advantage that cannot but be regarded with great 
laver, as it makes Grain the same price on both sides ©f the river, 
when stored in cither of our Elevators. 

Our facilities for sacking are complete. With all these 
advantages, as well as others not herein enumerated, we feel that 
we can give entire satisfaction to both shippers, receivers and 
buyers of grain. Storage charges will include ten days, or frac- 
tional parts. Grain in Bulk, 2c per pushel, first ten days, and jc 



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each subsequeni ten days, or fractional paH thereof. Grain' in 
Sacks, Oats, 6c per sack first ten days, and 2c each subsequent 
ten dayp, or fractional part thereof. G-rain in Sacks, Wheat, 
Corn, Btwley and Rye, 4c first ten days, and Ic each subsequent 
ten days, or fractional part. Flour, 6c per Barrel, first ten days, 
and 2c each subsequent ten days, or fractional part thereof. All 
Grain weighed by weighers appointed by the Union Merchants' 
Exchange. Grain received by Eoads coming into East St. Loiis 
and placed in Elevator id 3c less per 100 pounds than when sold 
on track. This amount about equals our storage, 

D. H. SiiATTERY, Secretary. 

ADVANCE ELEVATOR. 

McCormick, Adams and Arniington. 
"In the morning sow thy seed, at eve withold not thine hand."— [Bible 

This grain elevator is situated on the Island near Front st reet, 
on the line of Chicago and Alton railroad, between that road and 
the Ohio and Mississippi. It was built for the above firm, in the 
year 1872. The elevator proper is 50 by 60 feet and 130 feet 
high. Connected with it is a warehouse of one story. Also a 
warehouse on Front street of two stories. Both of these are 50 
by 150 feet. There is an engine of fifty horse power, and 
machinery far handling all kinds of grain in bulk. This is btored 
subject to owners orders. All kinds of goods are received in 
store. 

The cost of coal is from six to seven cents per bushel. In St. 
Louis the coal, delivered for this business, would be thirteen cents 
per bushel. Here, water cost nothing. No cartage is needed. 
In 1874, the main office was removed to room 10, Merchants' Ex- 
change, St Louis. There is telegraphic communication between 
that and the office here. 

The elevator is connected by rail with the river and with all 
roads leading into East St. Louis. In unloading cars of grain in 
bulk, shovels are used which are worked by steam. Two men 
attend them. In this way two do the work, which took the labor 
of five men, running common shovels. When unloaded the grain 
is at once elevated to the upper floor, weighed and run through 
chutes into various bins. When whipped u i(s elevated, weighed 
again and run into sacks, or in bulk, into wagon, car or barges. 
Three Fairbitnk^'Scales, each ot the capacity o"' 30,000 pounds are 
used. Sixty car loads of grain have been elevated per day. To 
do this requires the work of eight men. A car load usually 
weighs 22,000 pounds. An excellent mill site adjoins. On this a 
-* mil! c.:uld be built, possess the same advantages and get grain 
by chutes from the elevator. 

The co»t of this elevator IS estimated at $105,000. Through 
the courtesy of Mr. Richard Catlin, foreman, we were enabled to 
to see all parts of the property, and to obtain a fine view from 



EAi^T si'. LOUIS -yg 

top of the " Father of Flor)dH " and the cities on lioih side?, of St. 
Louis and her husy whurfs, of East Si. liOiiis and her rising (uanu- 
factories. This corapan}' also control the elevator at Venice Illi- 
nois, which holds 250,000 bushels of j^rain, and cost §150,000, two 
and a half miles noriii <>t East Si. Louis, on the Mississippi. This 
company state that they are easil}' ahle to prove that i hey tran- 
sact the lar£^est ixeneral grain husiness in St. Louis, and are 
recognized as the leading grain house of the city. 

There is a combination of railroad interests^ causing cheap 
freights eastward from Chiago, against which the grain merchants 
of St. Louis find that at present they cannot successfully com- 
pete, as thej' are charged higher freights eastward from here 
than are charged from Chicago. To ensure fair competition they 
look ho])efully to the success of Captain Eads, in deepening the 
chaanel of the Mississippi at its mouth; so as to allow ships of 
heavy burden to entei the harbor of ^ew Orleans. When this 
is done grain ma}' be shipped from hero to New Orleans in 
barges, thence transferred to floating elevators, and fiom them to 
ocean steamers for Europe. As St. Louis is a river city the 
railroads do not enhance the value o! her grain market. At 
present she is but a consumer. With cheap transportation, as 
above, by an all water ronte 10 the markets of the world as an 
exporter of grain she will victoriously contest the palm with 
Chicago. 

PLANING MILL. 

Caudry and Woodroof. 

*' The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned 

To hew the shafl and lay the architrave."— [William Cullen Bryant. 

This new enterprise was begun on November 27, 1874, by 
the above firm. By January 1875, they had completed their mill 
and begun operations. Its size is 60 by 60 feet, while in beigth 
it is one and a half stories. The engine is of twenty-six horse 
power. The wood work machinery consists of two planing and 
matching machines, two circular rip saws, one siding saw, one 
universal wood-worker for making moldings or any kind. 

Besides the above, there are implements innumerable almost, 
in the shape of shapers, tongers, boring and mortising machines, 
lathes and tenon machines. There is connected with this 
machinery a stone saw for cutting and shaping stone for general 
building purposes. This is at present leased to Mr. John Morton. 
Eight men are employed in the planing mill. Three hundred 
dollars are paid out monthly for work. Twenty-five bushels of 
coal are used daily ,at a cost of eight and a half cents per bushel or 
$2.12J per ton, delived by wagon. If delivered by rail the cost 
will be but six and a half cents oi- $1.62^ per ton. The same coal 
delivered by wagon in St. Louis, would cost the firm eleven cents 
per bushel or §2.75 per ton, there being twenty five bushels in a 
ton of coal. 



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THEIR eUPPLIES 



of dry, rough lumber for working are obtained from the East St» 
Louis lumber yards ; of these, there are several in the city as CoL 
Jarrot's, J. B. Lovington'e and others. 

Their capacity per day is to aress from ten to twelve thous- 
and feet of flooring, eight thousand feet of siding, and from six- 
teen to twenty thousand feet of planed lumber. 

Their markets are at Belleville, where a lot of $300 worth 
was recently sold — Gillespie Macoupin county, and the home 
market in East St. Louis. 

The Howe Literary Institute was finished by Mr. Caudry 
and his partner at that time, in the summer of 1874. 

EAST ST. LOUIS FOUNDRY. 

" If I had a hundred thousand dollars, I would invest it here in manufactur- 
ing."— R. H. Shultis. 

Shultis, Neil & Co , manufacturers of all kinds of iron and 
brass castings. 

These gentlemen have more work, in the above line than 
they can do. The senior partner, Mr. R. H. Shultis, said to the 
author : "If I bad a hundred thousands dollars, I would invest it 
in some good manufacturing business in East St. Lous. Water 
we have for nothing. You can stick down a pipe into the ground 
any where, under your engine if j^ou want to, and suck up water 
as you consume it. A pipe, here is a section of it, two inches in 
diameter, supplies us. Coal we can get for one-hair of what it 
would cost us in St. Louis." 

Mr. Shultis is a keen-witted, shrewd observant raachinest 
from New York. 

The firm are now making a specialty of machinery and fine 
gray iron castings used about heating apparatus. Toey cast the 
fine heating apparatus for the magnificent new Chamber of Com- 
merce which is now being erected in St. Louis. This consisting 
of steam radiators is probable the best steam heating apparatus in 
the West. Mr. Shultis, very justly thinks it quite a feather in 
the cap of Eas. St. Louis, that this, one of her new manufactur- 
ing firms should have "got away" with this important job of 
work, from the manufacturers of St. Louis. The apparatus 
weighed thirty tons. 

WAGES PER MONTH AND PIECE. 

This firm pay out from six to eight hundred dollars per 
month to moulders. The men are paid by the piece. Some make 
$1.50 per da}', while others make $4,00 per day. 

Mr. A. C. Kirby, the " Co.," eamo into this firm on April 1, 
1875. The foundry was erected in 1874. It stands near the St. 



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Louie Bolt nnd Iron works. The engine is of fifteen horse 
power. The cost of the building was $1,200. That of the 
machinery, moulds, etc., $3,000. The size of the moulding house 
is 30 by 60, an(J of tool and engine house 14 by 70 feet. 

WHAT BECAME OF THE BLACKLEGS OF EAST ST. LOUIS? 

There was at one time in East St. Louis a constable whose 
name was Teck. He was the ringleader of as mean a set of horse 
thieves, gamblers and blacklegs as every infested anj' town in 
early settlement or later growth. By their crimes, they rendered 
the place at that time infamous. This caused the people to have a 
vigilance committee. They drove out the lawbreakers. Some 
they put in skiffs and sent down the river, others they lynched. 



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CHAPTER X. 

EAST ST. LOUIS GRAPE SUGAR AND GLUCOSE WORKS — MESSRS. O. W. 
HYER & BRO., PROPRIETORS. 

These Works are situated directly on the river front, in the 
Third ward, at the head of the Island. Together with the dwell- 
ing houses near by, which are occupied by the Superintendent, 
Mr. H. Weigand, and employes, 23 in number, and all men of 
famih', the Works occupy several acres of land, and form quite a 
busy little village of themselves ; this has regular streets and alleys. 
The Works proper are owned by the Proprietors, who have leased 
the adjoining dwellings for a term of yeais from His Honor, 
Mayor S. S. Hake. 

Messrs, Hyer & Bro., who originated this business in Edinburg, 
Indiana, found that there they t;ould not have the proper facilities 
for getting supplies and marketing their p-.oducts, and that East 
St. Louis offered every facility for manufacture, low freights to 
all points of the compass, a boundless supply of water for noth- 
ing, coal almost for the digging, and labor at low rates. They 
bouglit the present works of Brotherton & Morse, who had erected 
them in 1869 for milling purposes, remodeled them and removed 
their coetly apparatus hither, from Indiana. 

Our townsman, Mr. John Niemes, who has erected bo many 
of the prominent public edifices of the city, had the contract for 
the brick work from the Messrs. Hyer. 

As remodeled the size of these Works is as follows : Ist. 
The Engine House 20x36 feet. 2d. The Starch Factory, where 
they make Starch exclusively lor their own use in their business. 
3d. The Grape-Sugar and Glucose manufactory proper, which is 
a building 45x45 feet, and three stories in height, with cupola. 

The Company finally began active operations in March, 1875, 
which was some week." prior to the establishment of the Western 
Chemical and Fertilizer Works. The first bone-black sold by 
those works was bought by Messrs. Hyer & Brother this spring. 

Being conducted through the manufactory by the senior 
member of the firm, O. W. Hyer, and viewing the groat engine, 
the reservoirs, the vats, the vacuum pans, the retorts of various 
shapes for various purposes, and all of scientific make, regardless 
of cost, and seeing the piles of bone-black, we almost felt trans- 
ferred backward to the middle of the dark ages, and to the den of 
an ancient astrologer, or to that of a votary of the Black Art. 



KAtsT ST. L^uis rn 

But we remember this is the iron age of utility', when the 
wisest men pursue tho most useful arts. The evidences of this 
fact, as shown by this firm, were ail around us. There were 
great vats ot liquid glucose clear as crystal. There were others 
amber yellow, and as clear as tne first. Passing to the cooling 
and boxing department we saw four wide deep reservoirs, in 
which the grape sugar was cooling, crystalyzing and granulating. 
Unlike Solomon's temple in which the sound of the hammer vvas 
not he^rd, here men were busy with hammers, nails and neat 
boxes, putting in convenient packages the manufactured article. 

The firm need but little wareroom, as orders arrive by mail 
faster than they can fill them, even with their present excellent 
iorces of machinery and men. These forces, they are preparing^to 
extend parallel with the increasing demand, having ample means 
at their command to do so. For some time the firm employed 
Mr. G. A. Rausenberger to travel and introduce thej new article 
of commerce to the trade. He was so successful, and the demand 
grew so fast that he was recalled and employed in filling orders. 

The products of manufacture are grape sugar and syrups. 
Grape sugar is a sweet substance closely allied to cane sugar and 
has its name from the fact of being the sweet principle of the 

grape. It is also contained in most fruits, in the sweet juice of 
owers, whence it passes into honey. It may also be artificially 
prepared by a chemical transformation or conversion from starch. 
By this latter mode it is prepared in the above establisment. 

The superintendent Kindly gave us tho folUowing outline of 
manufiacture (reserving of course all chemical formulae) by which 
our many readers may obtain a satisfactory insight into this 
most important industry. It is destined to afford employment to 
many, and a good market for much of the best white corn from 
the fields of Illinois and Missouri-. The varity at present used is 
St. Charles white. No. 1. Their track connects with all i-ailroads 
running to anil from St. Louis, This enables customers East to 
get their goods at a saving of freight ot six cents on each one 
hundred pounds. 

The first step in the manufacture of Grape Sugar is the prep- 
aration 01 Corn Starch of proper quality. This necessitates, with 
the exception of the drying room, all the machinery and appa- 
ratus of a Starch Factory. The starch is used in the moist state. 
It is prepared from corn by first soaking the latter in water, which 
process is called "steeping." After the corn is thoroughly soft- 
ened, it is ground with water into a thin, creamy fluid. This fluid 
then passes thiough a series of sieves, where the coarser particles, 
such as fibre, heart and hull are separated, while the starch is 
washed through the sieves by a showoi of water and is carried 
away to the runs. These are wooden troughs nearly 100 ft. long, 
and slightly inclined. The mixture of water, starch and impuri- 
ties flows down these runs, and as the current is very slow, the 
starch settles, while all light, flocculent matter, such as gluten, 



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fibre and the oil of corn is washed away, and collected in large 
tanks. This offal, as well as the coarse particles separated by the 
sieves, serves as excellent feed lor cattle and hogs. The Starch 
which settles in the runs is taken outand after undergoing several 
other processes of purification is transferred to the sugar depart- 
ment. Here, after being mixed with the proper chemicals, It is 
boiled in large vats for a requisite time, in order to convert it 
into sugar. The chemicals used for the conversion are then neu- 
tralized, and the resulting solution undergoes a regular process of 
refining, such as filtration, bone-black filtration, etc. The refined 
white solution is then evaporated in vacuum pans to ttie proper 
density. Two different kinds of sugar are manufactured at the 
establishment, viz : Block Sugar and Granulated Sugar. Of the 
first kind there are again four different brands, which ir seems are 
very favorably known to the trade, namely, W L and W D, for the 
use of Wine growers and Manufacturers of Yinegar, andall indus- 
tries that require a sugar perfectly free from the gum dextrine. 
The other two brands are B L and B D, which are chiefly used by 
Brewers, as they contain a certain amount of the gum dextrine, 
being, therefore, more nearly of the nature of maltworts. The 
second kind is manufactured in different shades, the same as cane 
sugar, with the grades of which, known as soft or coffee sugars, 
it has a striking resemblance. Messrs. O. W. Hej'er & Bro. are 
the first who successfully overcame the technical diflicultiesof the 
manufacture of Grape Sugar hi this sha) e, and this fact bears 
testimony to the excellence of their K'anufaciure. The Syrups 
which they manufacture are also of difierent shades, from white 
to yellow. They are either used for direct consumption, alone, 
or otherwise for manufacturing purposes. The demand for the 
products of this establishment is steadil}'^ on the increase. The 
present amount of the manufactures may be known from the fol- 
lowing data : Four hundred bushels of corn are worked up in 
ten hours. To do this, it requires two large boilers, whose fur- 
naces consume about 120 bushels of coal a d&y. There is one 
large engine that drives the machinery of the Starch Department, 
and one smaller one in the Sugar House. As may well be imag- 
ined there is a great number of water starch and syrup pumps, 
of which the main pump is especially noticeable, whose capacity 
is 260 bbls. of water an hour; which is drawn from five driven 
wells. 

The points which these gentlemen have gained by their 
removal to East St. Louis, are : First. Cheaper Material. Sec- 
ond. Cheaper Coal. Third. Cheaper Labor. Fourth. Cheaper 
Freights. Fifth and Sixth. Nearer and Better Markets. Sev- 
enth. Easy Shipments. These points enable them, after realizing 
a living profit to themselves, to afford their goods at cheap rates 
to their rapidly widening circle of customers. The factory is 
furnished with the most approved means of extinguishing fires. 
Its working capacity is 20,000 lbs. of syrup or sugar per day ) 
which may easily bo doubled. 



KAST ST. LOUIS. yc) 



8T. L0UI8 BOLT AND IRON WORKS. 



This is probably the bnsie.st Iron Mill within a radius of five 
dred in" 
carry it on 



hundred miles. The wenllcmen composing the Company who 
in East St. Louis are ihe following : Mr. T. A. Meysen- 



berg, President ; W. E. Guy, Vice President ; G. L. Edzall, Treas- 
urer j L. P. Plant, Secretary ; C, Ahern, Foreman. The WorkB 
occupy two and a-balf acres of land near the Cairo Short -Line 
Railroad. They oonsist of a Eolling Mill, having lull capacity 
for manufacturing Merchant Bar Iron. iicv:(' 

The Company make a specialty or making Street'Rdilie; T 
Raile, Bolts and Spikes. They have six puddling lurnaces, in 
which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or steel by decar- 
bonizatibn, or depriving the cast iron of carbonic acid by the' 
continued action of steady heat. Beside these, they have three 
Heating, six Spike, two Bolt Furnaces, and a fall complement of 
machinery, including Lathes, Planers, etc, 

CAPACITY OF THE WORKS. 

They have the capacity to manufacture Twelve Thousand 
Trace Bolts per day ; Forty Tons Finished Iron and Eight Tons 
of Spikes. The men employed number One Hundred and Forty. 
They are divided into two sets, one of which is employed while 
the other rests. Day and night the Works are in operation, from 
I o'clock Monday morning till 12 o'clock Saturday night. Two 
Railway Switches are in the yard. These are owned b}' the Iron 
Company. Between three and four thousand dollars is |)aid to 
employes on pay day. This occurs every forinight. 

THE IRON MABKETS. 

The Principal Market for their Manufactured Iron is Chicago. 
They ship also to San Francisco, Cal., and to intermediate points. 
Also to points as far eastward as Indianapolis. If our readers 
wish to enjoy a display of genuine fireworks, we would say, pay 
a night visit to those splendid Bolt and Iron Works of the city 
of East St. Louis. 

ST. LOUIS TRANSFER COMPANY. 

Patrick McCormack, Agent. 

General Officers — W. I). Griswold, President; J. M. Tomp- 
son, Vice-President;' R. P. Tansy, General Manager; F. B. 
Warner, Superintendent, 231 Third street between Pine and 
Olive, St. Louis. Richard Donnellej'', Agent for St. Louis for 
this road, corner Main and Spruce. 

This company was organized twenty years ago, if bought 
oat the Valentine & Co. trans'er business. It then assumed the 
name of St. Louis Transfer Company. The 1st of April it con- 



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solidated with Chicago Alton (some time known as East St. 
Louif-) TranHfer Company. JSTow named St. Louis Transfer 
Company, it is not the only one here doing business. They have 
an agent at the depot on either side of the river to receive and 
discharge freight. The company tran fer by wagon. The 
wagons cross on bridge or by ferry, as the agent of the company 
directs. 

CITY POLICE OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 

Organized in June, 1871. 

Officers in April. 1872 — J. W, Kenshaw, Captain and Ex- 
Officio Chief; J. Hogan, Lieutenant. 

Privates — McMahn, McGuire, resigned the second year j J. 
H. Kelly, John G-riffen, E. Addis, discharged j M. Kinney, E. 
Winters, JP. Dillon, J, Holloran, C. Eeeb. Same officers in 1873, 
with additional privates. M. S. Scott, Wm. Foley, T. Eyan, P. 
Kilkerry, E. A. McCallion. 1875— J. W. Eenshaw, Cnief; John 
HoUoran, Lieutenant; John Griffin, Lieutenant. 

Privates — C. Eeeb, W. Folej^, P. Dillon, M. Schlauttweiler, 
J. Woods, John J. McGrau, A. C. Miller, Eobert Addis, James 
Gray, Eugene Holloran, Frank Healy, L. McGlynn, Coroelius 
Frawley, Patrick O'Neil, Michael Eyan, John Hogan, Cornelius 
McGuire, D. Coffey, A. E. McCallion discharged, John Dillon, J. 
Coffey. Officers and privates are appointed by the Mayor and 
confirmed by the Council in April or May of each year. 

DUTIES. 

The duties of the police force are to patrol the city at ail 
hours and preserve the peace. They have jurisdiction under the 
law in all cases of its violatijn, State or municipal. Considering 
the hard times throwing large numbers out of employment, caus- 
ing a general stagnation of business, and consequent distress, 
the police force are entitled to great credit for preserving the 
peace so well, preventing great violations of law, and bringing 
offenders promptly lo jastice. 

To show the efficiency of the police force of this city ably 
osed for the suppression of crime and disorder, as it has been by 
its Chief and the Executive, we direct the attention of the 
reader to their suppression of the noted prize light of 1K73, and 
particularly to the good result in legislation against all participa- 
tion in, and countenance of this infraction of the law, that 
followed the movements that year by our authorities against it. 

For some time previous to the above date, prize fighting had 
become quite common. St. Louis had forced upon her an unen- 
viable notoriety as the chief Western center of that fraternity. 
It was the practice of the lovers of such sports as prize fighting, 
dog fighting and cock fighting, to assemble for the same in East 
St. Louis. The latter two varities of fighting were stopped by 



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the police of our city. Yet the manly art of self-defense— and 
offense in the prize-ring still continued. To end this also, our 
police now bent their efforts and with complete success. 

On the 20th of September, 1873, a prize fight took place five 
miles north of Venice, in Madison county. Ills. On the 18th 
September the boat which wris to convey the party were adver- 
tised to leave the wharf of East St. Louis, opposite the foot of 
Carr Street, St. Louis, at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 20th. 
Chief John VV. Eonshaw at once went before Justice O'Neil and 
swore out a warrant for the arrest of all concerned in the pro- 
posed fight. This was on ihe 19th September. He then collected 
his force, and, on the 20th, awaited the party at the time and 
place advertised. However, they started froni the foot of Carr 
street, St. Louis, instead of from our wharf, and the fight occur- 
red as stated. At that time, while the laws of Missouri prohib- 
ited prize fighting, they did not altogether prohibit preparations 
therefor. The laws of Illinois, however, forbade it, and all partic- 
ipation in it. 

Another fight was soon after advertised to take place between 
Allen and Hogan, on the 28lh October, 1873. The place where, 
was not known, but was strongly supposed to be on an island 12 
miles below the city. Chief Ilenshaw at once swore out before 
Justice Brackett another warrant as broad as the first. He sug- 
gested to Mayor Bowman to lelegraph to Governor Beveridgo for 
assistance, which he did. But His Bxeellency was absent from 
home, and the dispatch failed to reach him. His Honor, Mayor 
Bowman, also telegraphed to the Sheriffs of Monroe and Madison 
counties to oe on the look out tor the fighting party, as it was 
not positivelv known that the fighting would not take place on 
the river side of one of those counties. The Sheriff of Madison 
answered the telegram by coming. He brought an indictment by 
the Grand Jury of Madison county, against Allen, McCoole, and 
their aiders, for the fight of September 20, 1873, on Madison 
county. 111., soil. The Sheriff hoped to serve his writ here. Sher- 
iff Hughes was also on hand. As his force was small, on Satur- 
day evening at 7 o'clock, October 27th, Chief Eenshaw called 
upon the Chief of Police of St. Louis for aid and information, 
but failed to get either one. The 28th arrived. The most hide- 
ous scenes were enacted while the ''Continental" was at the St. > 
Jjouis wharf taking on her complement of passengers. These 
proceedings amounted to a riot among them, in which clubs and 
bricks were freely used. Five dollars was charged as fare at first. 
At last it was reduced to one dollar, while some i educed it still 
farther by eluding the guards or forcing themselves on board the 
vessel. In the meantime, on the East St. Louis side. His Honor, 
Mayor Bowman, the Sheriffs and Chief Kenshaw, with twelve 
policemen, were awaiting coming events. They had a steamer 
chartered and in readiness to follow the Continental as soon as 
she should show her destination. She cast loose and headed up 

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Stream. Soon, however, she rounded to for down the river, when 
the wind, that was blowing almost a gale, caught her foul and 
landed her against the East St. Tjouis wharf, at the foot of Christy 
avenue. She was at once boarded by the police party, headed 
by Mayor Bowman, who was the first on the boat, and the lead- 
ing parlies were arrested. The parties were brought to the police 
headquarters, the loaders bound over to the Circuit Court, and 
the remainder heavily fined. The boat was kept in custody for 
several days. These prompt proceedings put a stop to prize 
•fighting and other fighting sports in this vicinity. 

After the above occurrences were past, and it became pub- 
licly known what municipal and county officers had performed 
their duty, and what ones had failed to do so, the newspapers of 
St. Louis and the country generally were profuse in their praise 
of those who deserved it, and severe in their censure of others. 
Tbe press of St. Louis especially cilled for more stringent laws 
and enforcement thereof against prize fighting in that city, and 
in the State of Missouri. This just demand of the public was 
complied with by the State Legislature, which met the following 
winter, 1873-4, in Jefferson City. The cultured public heartily 
approved and applauded these measures. 

To East St. Louis must the meed of praise be given for her 
unflinching discharge of duty at first in this matter, which partly 
paved the way to these good results. His Honor, Mayor Bowman, 
and Chief John W. Renshaw may lay just claim to a large share 
of this honor, which, indeed, is acceded by all. 

THE EAD's bridge. 

Col. Flad, Consulting Engineer. 

The Illinois and St. Louis bridge that spans the Mississippi 
from Washington aveuue, commands the attentive observation of 
the visitor. The unique design, the purpose it fulfills so com- 
pletely, and the extensiveness of the structure renders it the 
most daring and wonderful piece of engineering in the country. 
The superstructure is supported by steel tubular arches, eight in 
number joined together by a net work of braces ; the arches 
being four above and four below, and twelve feet apart. Tbe 
center of the middle arch is fifty-five feet above highest water 
level. The tubes were manufactured in lengths of twelve feet 
each, eighteen inches in f'iameter, and from one-eighth to two 
and one-fourth inches in thickness of metal, and are of chrome 
steel. They are made in sections, six of which complete the 
circle, and about them is an envelope of steel, one quarter of an 
inch in thickness. Each length of tube weighs two tons. The 
length of the middle arch is 520 feet, and of the outer arches 502 
feet. The piers were sunk, the east pier ninety feet below the 
bed of the river and 120 feet below the surface of the water, and 
the west pier sixty feot below the river bed and ninety below the 



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surface on solid rock. The piers rise above the surface eighty 
feet. The iron caissons on which the piers rest with a weight of 
25,000 and 45,000 tons of stone, were eighty-two feet by sixty 
feet, and eighteen feet in depth, and weighed 500,000 pounds. In 
the caissons, workmen removed the mud and sand as fast as the 
increasing weight of the pier sunk them, which was hoisted 
through pipes or tunnels. At one time the workmen labored 
under three pressures of atmosphere, to retain which two air 
chambers were necessary, one communicating vvith the open air 
and the lower one with the upper one. Work began in March of 
1869, and the final test ivas applied in July, 1874. The bridge is 
built in two stories, the lower one tor the double car track, and 
the upper one is divided into two carriage ways, two horse car 
tracks, divided from which by an iron railings are two walks for 
footmen. The width of the top of the bridge is fifty-four feet. 
The length of the bridge proper is 1,628 feet. Carriages and 
pedestrians descend an incline over the east side, returning on 
the trentle work which shortens the distance to the East St. Louis 
Levee. Elevators at the east and west abutments will enable 
one to pass directly from one level to the other. The total cost 
of the structure is estimated at $9,000,000. The bridge was 
subjected to the following test : Seven locomotives were placed 
on each track and were moved out simultaneously over each of 
the three spans. The total weight was 560 tons. The deflection 
of the middle span was three and a half inches, and of side span 
three inches. Ten locomotives coupled together, were then run 
over each track, and the deflection in this case was two and a 
half inches. The tariff for the present is, for general merchan- 
deise, five cents per hundred pounds, for car loads five doUari* 
each, foot passengers five cents each, and for street car fare 6i 
eents per passenger. 

ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS. 

This Order was originally named "Defenders of the Faith.'' 
Under this name they were organized in the sixteenth century, 
about the time of the battle of the Boyne, in opposition to the 
Irish adherents of William, Prince of Orange, who then known as 
Peep O'Day Boys, have since been styled the Orange Men. The 
A. O. H. was instituted in New York city in March, 1852, it was 
chartered by the State of New York on March 5, 1853, and 
adopted for the United States, by the appointment of national 
oflScers on tha 8th of June, 1857. The national officers were 
Timothy Dorsey, National Delegate, and Mr. Campbell, National 
Secretary. 

The East St. Louis Division, No. 4, was organized by Henry 
O'Eourke. County Delegate, on the 20th of May, 1872, with six 
men. The present number is one hundred and fifty members. 

Division No. 5, was organized by P. Kerrigan, State Dele- 
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with twenty-one members. Both divisions meet in the Jackeisch 
building, on the first and second Wednesdaj'^ in the month. 

Its objects, as slated in the preamble to its constitution are 
to promote friendship, unity and true Christian charity among its 
members, by raising or supporting a stock or fund of money for 
maintaining the aged, sick, blind and infirm members and for no 
other purpose whatsoever. No person can become a member 
wHo is not Irish, of Irish descent, a Koman Catholic and ot Koman 
Catholic parentf . 

GOLDEN RULE LODGE, NO. 374. 

This Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows was 
organized by George F. Adams, on the 16th of January, 1868, 
with eight charter member.^. It was the first Lodge of the kind 
organized in East St. Louis. 

The names of the charter members were &eo. Shore, A. B. 
Armstrong, Jas. W. Chapman, W. A. Knight, Thos. Klegg, A. 
AUman, Goo. Hoskis and John Izatt. Fifty more members were 
added the first year. 

On August 9, 1870. application was made for ten withdrawal 
cards for the purpose of starting a new Lodge. This resulted ii^ 
the formation of the Pride of the Yalley Lodge, No. 435. la 
January, 1871, there were seventy-four members. 

On January 9, 1872, application was made for ton more with- 
drawal cards for the purpose of starting a German Lodge. The 
cards were granted and the Lodge formed, as Helvetia Lodge, 
No. 480, with a membership of sixty-three. 

On January 30, 1875, the Golden liule Lodge had a member- 
ship of 110. 

Harmon}' Encampment, No. 102 and Naomi Kebecca Degree 
Lodge, No. 5, were formed during the history of the Golden 
Eule. 

WESTERN FEirriLIZBR AND CHEMICAL WORKS. 

Mr. Heath, of St. Louis, is the President qt this companj^, J. 
Sheen esq., is the Chemist, and Sol. Stern, Superintendent. The 
workw are situated a short distance west of the National Stock 
Yards. The land, 2J acres, was purchased of the latter company. 
The building was commenced April 1st, 1875, and was so far com- 
pleted by June Ist, that the necessary machinery being placed with- 
in, under the personal supervision of the chemist and superinten- 
dent, the manufacture of bone meal and bone black was begun. 

The building is a frame 100x200 feet, part of which is one 
Btor}' and part two stories high. The machinery consists of a large 
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The bone njill is of iron, into which ihe bones are shoveled 
whole and ground into meal. This meal is then separated into 
two kinds, fine and coarse. The fine is used for fertilizing gar- 
dens, corn and cotton fields. 

The coarse meal is converted into bone black by being burn- 
ed in the kiln. This material is used for refining sugar. 

The bones used in these works ai-e mostly received by rail- 
way from the vast plains of Kansas. Here for centuries the buf- 
falo has lain his weary bones to rest. But East St. Louis enter- 
prise has found a way to use them. In fact, in this way, she kills 
three birds with one bone. On the plains they are a ghastly nui- 
sance to the tourist and farmer. The grasshopper has in many 
places hopped away with the farmer's living. East St. Louis, 
through this company, says : "My friend, I pay C. 0. D. for bones 
delivered at your nearest railway station." "Agreed" cries the 
farmer, and to work he goes with the boys to help. The bones 
are gathered and sold, and provisions brought to the happy wife 
and babes at home. Thus, three things are done by these gentle- 
men, a nuisance removed, a family provided for, and a valuable 
commodity created. One day thirty car loads of buffalo bones 
came from the plains to East St. Louis for the fertilizer and chemi- 
cal works. 

Supt. Sterns' oflSce is conveniently arranged for the transac- 
tion of all the office business here. Main office in St. Louis. 

The markets for bone meal are wholesale dealers in fertilizers 
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, Chi- 
cago. It goes mainly to the eastern cities. The bone black is 
sold to the Sugar Eefinery of East St. Louis. Other cities are also 
customers. 

At present forty hands are employed. The company, every 
week, are adding more hands to this number. 

The horns are sold to comb manufactories m Philadelphia. 
A comb factory in Bast St. Louis would pay an enormous profit to 
a company. All the horns which they would need are right here 
at their doors, and the market also. 

Raw bone superphosphate is another fine fertilizer. These 
gentlemen contemplate its manufactory on the same grounds, in 
buildings to be erected for the purpose. 

To make the superphosphate requires large quantities of phos- 
phoric acid. This they intend to make themselves. To do this 
will cause them to make such preparations as will enable them to 
make also sulphuric nitre, and muriatic acids, muriate of tin, cop- 
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comm3rce; these works are in cooieraplation. When completed 
the company will employ a total of seventy-five men. 

Mr. Sol. Stern, owning simi lar works in New Orleans, is 
enthusiastic over their success, and a courteous gentleman, our 
visit was pleasant. "Mr. Stern, please tell us how much per bushel 
you pay for coal for ihe Feriilizer uud Chemical Works?" 
"We pay six and a half cents per bushel." 
''How much would you have to pay in St. Louis ?" 
"It would cost us, delivered, eleven cents, we save three and 
a half cents per bnshel. We need much water for our purposes, 
we could not have it in St. Louis; in East St. Louis we have all 
we want from Cahokia for nothing. In St. Louis we could not 
get near the busidess center or railroads, in East St. Louis wo 
have both these advantage.'j," 

From frcish bones the animal matter is exti-acted by a chemi- 
cal process; from this, soap, wagon grease, etc.. are made. From 
the fresh hoofs fine neatsfoot oil is extracted and sold. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

DESCRIPTIVE OF THE CITY, SCHOOL>^, SOCIETIES, CHURCHES. 

The territory included in the city of East St. Louis is about 
three square miles. 

ITS RIVER FRONT 

Is about one and a half miles, affording a harbor and commercial 
facilities on the river that are unsurpassed. The harbor having 
been restored to its original depth of seventy-five feet, rolls its 
magnificent breadth between the cities. The river is swift enough 
to prevent any ol the obstructions from sand and drift which, in 
ante-dyking days, blenched the courage and defied the skill of 
the ancient mariner. 

THE MAGNIFICENT WHARF, 

Kevetted by the Wiggins Ferry Company with rock brought in 
barges from Alton and Carondelet, having been, by wise legisla- 
tion, and private and corporate energy, placed above the highest 
wliter mark — the flood of 1844 — together with the great dykes, 
have this year proved &n effectual protection to the Harbor and 
City of East St. Louis. This fact clearly proves that the confi- 
dence in the stability of East St, Louis, of parties who have in- 
vested hundreds of thousands of dollars here in manufacturing 
and other enterprises, chief among whom is the National Slock 
Yard Company, composed of men of the beat business judgment 
in the nation, being Presidents and Agents of the leading lines of 
Railroads centering here, as radii from the circumference, has not 
been misplaced. 

We invite other enterprising men, who are debating i i their 
minds the prudence of locating here for business, to remember 
the above knockdown argument in favor of coming. Also please 
recall the sentiments of our New York iron man, Mr. Shultis. 
No place can become great in manufacturing that has an inade- 
quate supply of water. And when old King Coal charges too 
high in any place for his black diamonds, the unlucky manufac- 
turer must fail. East St. Louis is alread}^ rich in her actual and 
latent resources. Her present and prospective manufacturers are 
presented at once with unlimited letters of credit on two of the 
richest banks in the world. Tbey cannot fail. These are, first, 



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the Bank of the Father of Waters — chief deposit at East St. Louis 
— and the Bank of King Coal — chief deposit at East St. Louis. 
These Banks are more generous to the comer hero than is Uncle 
^ani to the actual senior. The settler must isolate himself from 
civilization to get a farm ; ail honor to his heroism. Here the 
manufacturer, taking ii)> his abode among us, is at once, by com- 
ing, surrounded wiih all the advantages of the present age. 

STREETS. 

All parts of East St. Louis are well provided with wide 
streets. A clause of the present charter prevents by law the 
laying out of streets within one-half mile of the outer limits, un- 
less they shall be in conformity with the existing general plan. 

A few disconnecting streets, established years ago, previous 
to its incorporation as a city, have undergone a straightening and 
■connecting process. This adds much to their beauty and conven- 
ience. They are continually beiijg improved as to the grade and 
solidity of car, carriage and foot ways. 

"When it is remembered that the city of St. Louis is expand- 
ing in all directions, westward and up and down the river, from 
her original site on Market street, in 176-1, and present business 
center on the wharf streets near the western end of the Great 
Bridge, and that East St. Louis is only across the river 1,800 feet 
■eastward from this business part of the Great City, the reflecting 
reader may conclude with the author that East St. Louis has a 
brilliant future directly before her in building,architectural beauty, 
commercial and manufacturing enterprises, and in the general and 
rapid enhancement of her values. This will cause the platting of 
new additions of territory; ample room for which exists in the 
already highly valuable land extending around the city eastward. 
But probably the greatest improvement will be the filling up of 
Hue old river channel, platting it into streets and lots, and erecting 
thereon splendid dwellings and stores. The filling can easily be 
brought from the blufls. The old channel, indeed, is the proper 
place for the debris of the coal mine, which debris has been for 
generations accumulating in the way of the miner. While already 
loaded at the mines, to be dumped out of the way, it could be 
brought a short distance further, and " placed wjaere it would do 
the niost good.*' In this way, it would prove a greater source of 
profit than the black diamonds for which the miner digs. 

Some of the finest parts of Boston and other cities stand 
upon made land, the site of which once marred the landscape. 

FACILITIES FOR MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE. 

East St. Louis has manufacturing facilities that are unsur 
passed. These arise from the inexhaustible supply' of coal, water 
and material. The iron mountains of Missouri yield their rich 
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cheaper here than at almost any point in the Union, This, next 
to cheap coal, is an item of importance. Cheap labor it is which 
has hitherto given the European manufacturers the great com- 
peting advantages of low prices for goods in the markets. Cheap- 
Labor, Cheap Coal, Cheap Material, ai^d an unlimited supply of 
Water tor engines, with easy access to Home and Foreign Mar- 
kets, are the important inducements offered by this city to man- 
ufacturers and merchants of the Union. 100 per cent., 200 per 
cent., 300 per cent, await you. 

SOCIETY. 

This is composed of various classes. There is good society 
for all classes. The German is an important element. The Irish 
have a large society ; also thti French. The Americans comprise 
men of broad views who welcome every man of energy and in- 
tegrity to a home among them, whether he hails from any where 
in the Union, sunny France, the Emerald Isle, the Fatherland, or 
the Mother Country. There are an unusual number of social 
parties, Literary meetings, Church festivals, Picnics, Railroad 
and Steamboat excursions! during the summer season. 

The advaiiiages of East St. Louis are very attractive to cap- 
italists. The repair and machine shops, elevators, iron manufac- 
tories, schools, and the great National Stock Yards, almost with- 
out exception in the lull tide of successful operation, attest the 
vifedom of those who have already 'egun to reap the rich har- 
vest which awaited them and which still awaits others. The low 
rates of rents are not an unimportant item to business men ; also 

THE LOW PRICES OF LANDS 

as compared wi h older cities present a final and conclusive rea- 
son for investment here. 

East St. Louia is distant from Nashville, Tenn., 318 miles } 
from Toledo, Ohio, 432 miles j from Cincinnati, 340 miles; from 
Indianapolis, 238 miles. 

VIVIAN CLUB. 

"Was organized July 29, 1875. Its object is social and literarj' 
entertainment. The officers are : C. M. Keys, President j W. J. 
Broderick, Treasurer ; H. D. ()'Brien, Secretary. 

POST OFFICE. 

The Ferry Company was originally the means of mail com- 
munication between residents here and the rest of the world. 
Afterwards Government appointed a mail carrier on a route ex- 
tending eastward. He acted as Postmaster at the points on this 
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appointed by ihe Govenrment. Having eerved a number of years 
he resigned. Mr. Ernest W. Wider was then appointed under 
President Buchanan's administration. Having served his term, 
Mr. Wider was relieved by Mr, Daniel Sexton. Under President 
Lincoln Mr. Wider was reappointed. Having served eight years, 
he resigned in A] ril, 1868, when Mr. J. B, Sikking was appointed. 
Having acceptably served until July, 1872, Mr. Sikking was reap- 
pointed by President U. S. Granr, and at present .holds the office. 

THE CHURCHES. 

There are eight churches in Bast St. Louis where services are 
regularly held. Of these, extended notices of most of which are 
herein given, the reader is referred for general facts, location, 
and time of opening to the Directory appended. All the churches 
are well attended on the Sabbath. They have flourishing Sunday 
Schools connected with them. 

ST. henry's ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (GERMAN). 

''Laus Deo." 

Thig Church is beautifully located in the eastern part of the 
city, on the corner of Broadway and Sixth streets, adjoining 
Pecan Grove. The worshippers who formed the original organ- 
ization were members of St. Patrick's Church. They organized 
St. Henry's merely in order to have an opportunity to worship 
in their native tongue; the sermons in St. Patrick's being in 
English. There were four persons only at the first meeting 
tor organization. Father Einkes was the Chairman. They met 
in the spring of the year 1866. The place of meeting was in 
the basement ot St. Patrick's Church. They met in the church 
for worship for some weeks after. Afterwards they lented the 
upper story of the brick building on the corner of Collinsville and 
Division avenues. Here a permanent organization, with twenty- 
five members, was effected, with Father Rinkes as Pastor. During 
the summer of 1866 the new church determined to erect a place 
of worship of their own. In the fall of that year they bought 
land for fifteen hundred dollars and built a frame thirty by sixty 
awd two stories in height, on the southwest corner of St. Louis 
and Collinsville avenues. During the erection ot this building 
rumors were circulated that it would be sold for debt. To show 
these rumors unfounded and the ability ot the church to keep the 
building, five persons signed a note to Messrs. Howe & Rablin, 
contractors for the debts incurred, thus placing their financial 
credit beyond question. 

During the absence of Bisiiop Yonker, Vicar General now. 
Bishop Baltcs dedicated the church in the spring of 1867. Rev. 
A. B. Einkes, Pastor. Here they worshipped until their large 
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this time Father Einkes was replaced by Rev. F. Gr. Leve, and 
he by Rev. Chriatoper H. R. Koenig. To the wise course pursued 
by Father Leve was mainly due the large increase in the church 
membership. He was greatly endeared to his people, and his re- 
moval elsewhere, from their charge caused deep sorrow among 
them. This, however, was mitigated by the pastorate of the 
present incumbent. 

The present imposing edifice in which the church gathers tor 
worship was built during the pastorate of Father Koenig, who was 
installed in 1869. The corner stone was laid on Sunday, the 15th 
of June, 1873, with imposing ceremonies, by Bishop P. B.Baltes, 
of Alton, in the presence of all the German Catholic Societies of 
Edwardsville, Belleville and St. Louis, together with those of 
this city. One year elapsed, when it was dedicated on the 14th 
of June, 1874, by the same dignitary, and in the presence of an 
equally imposing assembly, composed mainly >)t the above socie- 
ties. In size it is the largest church in this city. Its cost was 
thirty-four thousand dollars, exclusive of the altar, statues and 
furnishings inside, which are on a splendid scale. The organiza- 
tion numbers now six hundred members. It is in a flourishing 
state, under the wise management of Father Koenig. 



EVANG. LUTH. CHURCH. 

The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at East ^St. Louis 
was organized May 10, 1863, by Rev. P. Buenger, of St. Louis, 
Mo., and consisted at that time often families, who were preached 
to in a private house. In the year 1864 the congregation built a 
church on English (8th) street, between Illinois and St. Louis ave- 
nue, which is still used by them for their worship. The same 
year this congregation received its own pastor, Rev. B. Burfeind, 
who, however, remained but one year, and then accepted a call 
from the Ev. Luth. congregation near Quincy, Ills. After this, 
the congregation was served for three years by Rev. A. Brauer, 
Professor of the Concordia College, St. Louis. But in the summer 
of 1868 they called candidate minister W. Baurahoefeaer lor tbeir 
pastor, who served them till August, 1871. After his departure 
the Rev. H. Meyer was called in his place. The congregation 
numbers at present 40 families, and 264 members. There is also 
a school connected with it attended by about 50 scholars, the 
teacher of whom is Mr. Grupe. 



THE SCHOOLS. 

There are excellent opportunities for education. The public 
school system is efficacious under the supervision of County 
Superintendent, J. P. Slade. At an early date the influence of 
Father Bunsen, County Superintendent was felt in East St. Louie. 



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In 1841 or 1842, Capt. John Tronclley and John Carnee, Esq., 
and their neighbors in Illinoistown, having no place at home to 
which to send their children to school, and feeling the need of 
one started a subscripiion list to raise funds with which to build 
a schrol house and hire a teacher. One hundred and seventy-five 
dollars were subscribed. They thereupon employed a carpenter 
at one dollar and sevonly-five cents per day to erect a house. Its 
site was on the public square in Illinoistown, now in the First 
Ward. It was a frame 16 by 14 foet in size. It had room for 
two short rows of benches, a small desk in front for the teacher. 
Also places for the water-bucket and broom. The furniture was 
all unplaned. 

The first pedagogue who presented hin\gelf was hired — 
whether he knew his A. B. C's. or not they did not know. They 
never asked him. All the parties expected him to do was to 
keep the children out of mischief six months of the year, 
including winter. This was indeed a negative good, but positive 
good of their best progress in knowledge, was less enforced. 
Now the ideal of the school is not only to keep pupils out of mis- 
chief, but to ensure their progress in learning. 

This house stood on the Public Square until the present com- 
modious and well appointed public schools houses were built. It 
was then sold and removed. 

secretary's report of our schools. 

The following is an epitome of the report of the Secretary of 
the Board of Education tor School District No. 172 11 E. 10 W., 
for the scholastic year of ten months, ending June 30 1875. 

Number of schools in the district, is six; numbers of 
teachers, 21 ; greatest number in attendance during the year, 
1340; least number in attendance during the year, 805; average 
during the j'ear, 1102; of these were boys, 550; girls, 543; average 
number of days taught, 210; total expense during the year, 
117,075. 

The report from several schools are as follows : The upper 
school held in the basement of St. Patrick's church has teachers, 
7; average attendance of scholars, 416; rent of school room per 
month, S30; salary of janitor per month, $40; total cost per 
annum, 85,250. 

Middle school held in the public school building on the corner 
of St. Louis and Collinsville avenue has, teachers, 4; average 
attendance of scholars, 220; salary of teachers per month, $290; 
salary of janitor per month, 830 ; total cost per annum, 83,200. 

Broadway school held in the basement of St. Henry's church 

on Broadway has teachers, 4; average attendance of scholars, 

212 ; rent of room per month, 825 ; salary of teachers per month, 

$285; salary of janitor per month, 820; total cost per annum, 

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Franklin school held in the public school building in ihe 
First Ward, has teachers, 4; average attendance of scholars, 209 ; 
salary of teachers per month, S^75j salary of janitor per month, 
$30; total cost per annum, S3,050. 

Colored school held in the colored Baptist Church, on Brady 
street, has teachers, 1; average attendance of scholars, 27; rent 
of school room per month, $10 00; i<alary of teacher per month, 
$60.00; salary ot janitor per month, $10.00; lotal cost per annum, 
$800. 

Higii school held in private building owned by George 
Schaub, standing on Sixth street, between Missouri and Division 
avenues, has teachers, 1; average attendance of schola'S, 17; 
rent ot school room per month, $22.50; salary of teacher per 
month, $100.00 ; salary of janitor per month, $10.00 ; total cost 
per annum, $1,32-5. 

Office expense of the board, including the salary of {Secretary 
per month, $15; total cost per annum, $150. 

From the above it will be seen that the total annual rents 
paid for school rooms by the board amounts to $1^026; divided 
as follows : to St. Patrick's Church, $450.00 for seven rooms; to 
St. Henry's Church, $250.00 for four rooms; to private parties 
for the high school, one room, $225.00, and to the colored Baptist 
Church Society, for one room, $40.00. The average wages paid 
teachers per month, is a trifle over $69.00. The average number 
of scholars per teacher, is little over 52, and the cost ot ten 
months actual schooling to each scholar is a little less than $15.50. 

TEACHERS FOR THE YEAR 1875-6. 

High School— Prof. F. V. Eafter, Principal. 

Upper School — Prof. A.J. Driscoll, Principal. 

Eoom No. 2, Miss Crowley, First Assistant ; room No. 3, 
Miss Bergin, teacher; room No. 4, Miss Flaherty, teacher; room 
No. 5, Miss Martin, teacher; room No. 6, Miss Canty, teacher; 
room No. 6, Miss Conway, teacher. 

Middle School — Prof. A. O'Leary, Principal. 

Eoom No. 2, Prof S. F. Morehead, First Assistant; room 
No. 3, J. Ohly, teacher; room No. 4, Miss S. Weber, teacher. 

Broadway School — Prof. J. EuhlandJ Principal. 

Eoom No. 2, Prof. Vogh, First Assistant; room No. 3, Miss 
Kircher, teacher; room No. 4, Miss Duffy, teacher. 

Fi-anklin School — Prof. B. Long, Principal. 

Eoom No. 2, Prof. H. Flannigan, First Assistant; room No. 
8, Miss McCready, teacher; room No. 4, Miss E. Gaines, teacher. 

HELVETIA LODGE NO. 480, I. O. 0. F. 

This Lodge was organized and opened on February 22, 1872, 
by the following twelve charter members : D. C. Stedlin, P. G. ; 
W. C. Kupper, P. G.; E. W. Hecker, F. W. Ehedenmeyer, Wia. 



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Hhedenmeyer, Heniy Proetz, Wendlin Huschle, Henry Doerlyee, 
Albert Volkman, Fred Seber, Fred Siurner and Oito Runley. 

There are now ijixty-two members. The objects of the 
society are to elevate maukind in purposes and character, and to 
afford ni'iiual aid and protection to the members of the society. 
It meets every Friday evening in the ball of Si. John's building — 
third floor. 

The terms an i mode of admission may be learned from Mr. 
J. C. Protsman, JN. G., East St. Louis. 

LYMAN HOWE, AND HOWE LITERARY INSTITUTE. 

The above named gentleman was originally from Greenfield, 
Mass. An-iving in the west be selecied East St. Loui.-. as being 
the most eligible place lor buniness. His after career proved the 
soundness of his judgment. Perceiving the increasing demand 
for building material he engaged m ihe lumber trade. For a long 
time he a.-SDCiated with himself Mr. Kabiin, under the firm name 
of Howe & Eablin. Hon. John B. Loviiigston was also his part- 
ner at one time, and intimate friend and advisor. Howe & 
Eablin frequently undertook building contracts. Some of those 
buildings still stand, among which is the Douglas School building, 
erected on the Island at the corner of 4Lh and Mulligan streets. 
It is a four-room edifice with a seating capacity for two hundred 
pupils. Its interior is beautifully adorned with costly oil paint- 
ings of suggestive educational scenes. These works of art were 
the results of former picnics by the school. 

By strict adherence to the principles of economy which insure 
prosperity, at his death in 1868, Lyman Ilovvehad amassed a com- 
fortable fortune. For the distribution ol this wealth he provided 
by will; by foun-ling various educational and religious insiiiu- 
tions, after making ample and generous provisions for his rela- 
tives. This will was dated 9ih of January, 1865; proved ISih of 
September, 1868; filed and recorded in Belleville June 29, 1869. 

Mr. Howe gave ten thousand dollars tor the building of 
a church or school house, or both, on Bloody Island, town jf East 
St. Louis, Si. Clair county, Illinois. He appointed Hon. J. B. 
Lovingston and Thomas B. Scoit as custodians of this trust. To this 
generous bequest Hun. J. B. Lovingston added a site on Tenth 
street, on the eastern boundary of the city. Here the present 
elegant structure was erected and named Howe Literary Institute. 

The corner stone was Inid with Masonic honors August 8ih, 
1873. It was dedicated September 1^74, with appropriate cere- 
monies. Rev. A. H. Burlingarae, I). D., of St. Louis, delivered the 
dedicatory address. During the year 1874 there were enrolled 
one hundred and twenty pupils, wi h an efiieie it faculty of teach- 
ers; and while being one ot ihe most conspicuous and ornate edi- 
fices of the city, it is at the same time an enduring monument to 
its noble founder, Mr. Lyman Howe. 



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C. B. Clarke Architect, Chtamit at. Ht. IjOuU 

" HOWE LITERARY INSTITUTE, East St. Louis, Illinois. 



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Kev.S.F. Holt, who was elected president, deaorves great credit 
for his efforts, lie is also corresponding secretary of the as.socia- 
tion, and financial agent; to him all letters concerning it, or 
scholastic matters, should be addressed. 

The following extracts regarding the Institution and the 
Illinois Educational Association are of interest to the reader : 

THE ILLINOIS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION — ITS ORIGIN. 

Mr. Lyman Ilowe, beirig of Bapiist i):i rentage, his executors, 
Hon. John B. Loving ton and Taoma.s iJ. Suoit, Esq., magnani- 
mously proposed to liev. J, j\I. Cochran, Missionary ot the South 
District Bapti^t Association, that if said Association, or the Bap- 
tist de lomination would endow vhe Presidency of a Seminary at 
East St. Louis, with §10,000, it should have the sole occupancy 
and use of the building they propose erecting for educational and 
religious uses — with the perj)etual right of having two thirds ot 
the trustees of the Institution, members of regular Baptist 
churches, and the Presidert of the Institute always a regularly 
ordained Baptist minister in good standing in his denomination. 

This most honorable offer was presented to the South District 
Baptist Association at its annual meeting at Belleville, September 
1, 1871, through its Missionary, who recommended its acceptance; 
and also the appointment of a committee, with power to confer 
with the executors of Mr. Lyman Howe, deceased, and make such 
arrangements with them as may be necjessary, to secure the occu- 
pancy and u-^e of said Seminary building, when completed. Also, 
to take measures for raising the necessary funds for endowment. 

This ashociaiion, after a full and interesting discussion on the 
subject, unanimously accepted the offer made, by adopting their 
Missionary's roport, and appointing the proposed committee — 
consisting of Rev. J. M. Cochran, Rev. Cyrus Thomas and Wm.R. 
Begolc. This committee, in order to compass the object of their 
appointment, called a meeting of friends of education and religion 
at Belleville, October 2, 1871. Then and there "The Illinois Edu- 
cational Association" was formed. 

PORTRAIT PAINTIXG. 

The painter, Mr, J. W. Lowry, as an artist, is a product of 
East St. Louis. Having arrived here nine years ago, he prose- 
cuted his artist studies under the direction of the distinguished 
portrait painter of St. Louis, John Reid, Esq., beginning in 1872. 
Their studies were pursued for some time in the same room. In 
1874 Mr. Lowry established himself in the St. John building. He 
has been quite liberally patronized. Among the paintings which 
he has produced is an elegant life-size j.ortrait of Dr.W. J. Sisson. 
It is exquisitely finished, and shows the artist to be a master of 
color. James West, the American painter, was once asked the 
question : — ''With what do you mix your colors?" West replied: 

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"With my brains, sir." So might our East St. Louis artist reply, 
if asked this question. Mr. Lowry,ha8 other pictures in course of 
completion, among which is a beautiful portrait of the little 
daughter of our successful fellow townsman, Mr. Albert M. Meintz. 

SEMINARY AND BUSINESS COLLEGE. 

l^he East St. Louis Seminary andBu^ine-s College was estab- 
lished in the fall of 1875, by Pro'f. J. W. Whittlesey. It is on the 
co-educational plan. 

Degrees will be conferred on all who complete either of the 
three courses of study here pursued. These are Classical, Scien- 
tific and Business. The degree conferred at the close of the latter 
course will be that of Master of Science of Accounts. It will be 
placed on a beautiful diploma. In 1876 a Centennial Diploma will 
be given. The Seminary opened on the 13th of September, with 
very flattering evidences of success, in the St. John's Methodist 
Episcopal Caurch. 

ST. John's m. e. church. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church of this place was first organ- 
ized on Saturday, the 20th day of April, 1849, by Thomas Bur- 
nett, Ilenr}'^ Walls, Martin Stiles, Abraham B. Pope, John Thorn- 
ton, and William Oglesby. The organization was known as the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Illinoistown. It possessed land, 
being the N. E. A of lot 4, block 23 on Brady street between 3rd 
and 4th, Illinoistown. Here they erected a frame church m which 
they worshipped. 

In 1868 a reorganization took place on the 2ord of February, 
when the following named trustees were elected i. e. Lewis M. St. 
John, Samuel W. Toomer, John B Sikking, William Williscb, 
Abraham B. Pope, Frank Becker and George W. Davis. 

There were 45 members of whoai the Eev. William Wallis 
was Pastor. 

AVorship was still conducted in the old frame church on Brady 
street. 

In 1869 Miss Louisiana St. John, a lady no more noted for her 
wealth and culture than for ner piety among the many generous 
acts of her life gave part of block No. 12, St. Clair subdivision, to 
the church, on which to erect a new house of wort^hip. 

The gift was accepted and ground broken for the erection of a 
church, on this lot, in the fall of 1869. The corner stone was laid 
on Wednesday, April 27th, 1870, with appropriate ceremonies by 
Eev. Robert Allyn. 

The venerable pioneer preacher, Eev.Peter Cartwright, assist- 
ed in the ceremonies. The church has since then prospered. It 
now has a membership of One Hundred and Forty members. 

Eev. Daniel Caughlin became pastor in 1863, remaining two 
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j-ears each. Eev. J. T. Hough, AViiliam Wallis and J. H. Lock- 
wood, ll^y. G. W. Farmer came in Sept. 1871, when the paHtoral 
year begins, and remained till April 1872, six months. Rev. i\. AL 
Beach then served the church until the ibllowing September, 1873, 
when Rev. I.A. Smith arrived and remained until September, 1874, 
when Kev. S. P. Groves assumed the Pastorate and continued it 
until September, 1865, when the District Conlerence assigned the 
llev. J. W. Grant to the charge ot the church. 

FIRST ROM^N CATHOLIC SOOIEIY ORGANIZED IN EAST ST. LOUIS. 

This was established by Father Erennan, in 1861. It 
embraced all catholics of whatever nationalii}-^ who were then 
resident here, including some ui the most prominent citizens. 

FARTHER DAMON TEMPERANCE bCCIETY. 

This society was esiablished in November, 1870, and char- 
tered in March, 1871. The number of membcs at organization, 
163. The officers at organization were P. C. Coiinoly, President ; 
Edward Ilennebery, First Vice President; P. M. Sullivan, 
Secretaiy J John Scullon, Assistant Secretary; Patrick Boyne, 
Treasurer. 

The present officers, for 1875, P. J. O'Halloran, President; 
John T. ]Murph3', First Vice President ; V. P. Michael, Second 
Vice President; P. M. Sullivan, Secretary , John Buckley, Assis- 
tant Secretary; Alichael lioach, Treasurer. 

The societ}' woi-ks in connection with the State Union Socie- 
ty of the same name and objects, with which it became affiliated 
in May, 1871, as No. 1, in the State, and with the Eoman Catholic 
Total Abstinence Union of America, October, 1S61, as No. 33. 

It now numbers about 90 members. Its objects are total 
abstinence from intoxicants, and benevolence to its members. In 
case of the sickness of a member, he receives five dollars a week, 
an(^ free attendance. In case of his death his family receive one 
dollar from each member of the local society and fifty dollars 
from the treasury. 

ST. PATICK'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

During the year, 1861, Rev. John J. Brennan organized this 
church, and led its worship in the Methodist Church, now occu- 
pied by the colored people as a place of worship. The congrega- 
tion numbered about one thousand of mixed nationalities. In 
1861, also, the lot on the north-east corner of Sixth street and 
lllinijis iivenue was purchased for a church, and the foundation 
laid. The corner stone was laid on the 17Lh of March, 1862, with 
ceremonies befitting the occasion. The present Coadjutor Bishop 
of St. Louis, Father Ryan, preached the cerrnor..^ 



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One yefir thereafter, on the 17th of March, 1863, the church 
had reached completion, and the dedicatory services were then 
held. The building was fifty-eight feet long by fifty feet wide. 
Father Brennan left soon after the dedication. He was suc- 
ceeded by Eev. Francis H. Zebel, who remained until 1873, in 
December, when he was transferred to Cairo, and Eev. P. J. 
O'Holloran, V. Gr., took his place. 

New additions were made to the edifice during the pastorate 
of Father Zebel; the wings and the sanctuary were added. 

The total cost of the original building and additions, was not 
far from thirty thousand dollars. 

PRESBYTERIAN CIIURCII. 

"Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature."— [The Savior. 

The Presbyterian church is situated on historic as well on 
missionary ground, viz : the far famed Bloody Island. Its apos- 
tle was a Eev. Corbit, who labored as a missionary in the neigh- 
borhood. The church was organized by Eev. Martin Gregg, who 
also, in troublous times commenced to build the walls of the 
present church, in 1868. Plis experiences were of the most trying 
character. After some two years of faith and work, he was 
relieved by Kov. J. D. Jones, who succeeded in completing the 
edifice, and furnishing the same in replete and tasteful style. He 
finally relinquished a^field so hard to work and barren in results. 
The present incumbent is Eev. Wm. L. Johnston, who emulates 
the labors and reaps the recompense of his predecessors. 



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CIIAPTEPt XIl. 

CAPT. JOHN TRENDLEY 

"Was born in Baden, Gonijany, on the 20th of June, 1804. 
He was pai'lially schooled in the rudiments of learning at a sub- 
scription school in the Black Forrest. Here he attended during 
five or six winters, until his ihii-teenth year. 

His father's name was Paul Trendley, and his mother's, 
Katharina Pfifer. They were married in Germany. In the fall 
of 1817 his father removed the familj^, consisting of his wife, 
John, Mary, Joseph, Christina and Peter, to Kotterdam, intend- 
ing to embark lor America. Asa great manj?^ emigrants, however, 
were then to embark, and crowding each ship, his father prudently 
remained till the spring of 1818. In April, 1818, he embarked 
with the family in a merchant ship. This vessel, however, was 
also too heavily laden. She contained, besides the passengers, 
ninety-8ix ])airs of French mill-stones, and two hundred pipes of 
Holland gin. Their pilot, not having come aboard at starting, 
the Captain lost his reckoning, a storm arose, and the ship was 
wrecked xV])ril 80, 1818, near Dover, in the channel between 
Franco and England. Mr. Trondley's father lost ail his property 
except the money in his belt. No lives were lost, being rescued 
by small vessels coming to their relief. They staid two days at 
Maggat, England, near JDover. From there they went by schooner 
to London, where they remained six weeks. From London they 
shipped to Alexandria, Virginia, arriving there after a voyage of 
fifty-two days, in August. 1818. They went by schooner to Balti- 
more, where Mr. Paul Trendley had letters of introduction to a 
prominent Quaker merchant. On the schooner, when the wind 
laid, they learned to fish for clams. The Captain of the vessel 
taught tbem how to eat them, too. Their Quaker friend, who had 
hooks and eyes on his drab coat, and wore a broad-brimmed hat, 
sent them to the finest hotel in the cit}', at their own expense, 
and left them to enjoy themselves. This did not last long at §40 
per week. Hiring a four-horse team the family removed over 
the mountains to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg, Pa.) This journey 
conaumed three weeks of tmie. They here enjoyed the hospitali- 
ties of a German house for two weeks, when they bought for 
twenty dollars a small covered boat of tbe kind nick named 
"Chicken Thieves," and embarking therein they came down the 
Ohio to Westport, 18 miles above Louisville, Ky., near which, on 



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a farm, lived Mr. Heffaer, to whomMi-, Trendley had letters from 
Germany. Being kindly received they remained during the fall, 
pulling the first corn for Mr. liefi'ner that they had ever gathered. 
In January, 1819, Mr. HefTner, a neighbor^ and Mr. Tiendley 
bought a keel-boat at Louisville for about a thousand dollars, 
embarked their families and goods therein, and on 1st January, 
1819, started down the river for St. Louis. They went down tiae 
Ohio to its mouth and up the Mississippi. A keel boat bad run- 
ning planks, called running boards, around the outside for men 
to run on while poling the boais, and a oord called ^'cordiale" 
for men, twenty or more, to pull the boats by when the shcre and 
stage of water allowed them to do so. Upon arrival at St. Louis, 
March 2d or 3d, 1819, Paul Trendley was destitute of money. 
Capt. John had two dollars, which he had earned on the way. 
They settled at St. Peters, near St. Charles, Mo., where they rented 
a farm for three years. At the end of this time German industry 
and econom}^ triumphed, and they were able to buy the farm, 
which they did. It cost them $3.50 per acre. In 1822-3 Capt. 
Trendley's father paid his taxes in coon skins. la 1825 John 
came to the Ferry. As ready money for him was scarce at the 
farm, he wished to see some again. On the 28th of March, 1828, 
ho was married to Miss Harriet Everley, in Galena, 111., by Jus- 
tice Colter. On his return home his father caused them to be re- 
married by Father Varagen in St. Charles Koman Catholic 
Church. 

Samuel Wiggins at first put John to driving an ox cart. He 
did so well that he soon promoted him to the post of pilot on a 
boat. Since, he has been collector, superintendent at one time, 
and agent. The ferry to Venice was called the Upper Ferry. 
This, Capt. John ran for five years — irora 1830 to 1835 — when the 
lease expired. Horse boats were used, made by placing a platform 
on two hulls and a lar^e water wheel between. This was run by 
another large wheel, lying borizontall}'. This was attached by 
cogs (0 the other's shaft. Eight horses were used to pull it round. 
A horse boat would carry six large teams. The floating dock was 
begun in 1831 for repairing sunken steamers. Captain Trendley 
thinks that Vanorsdall owned the ferry after the death of Capt. 
Piggott, as he ran it. Capt. Blondeau also ran the canoe ferry 
for Vanorsdall & Day. 

Capt. T. served as a soldier twenty days against the Winne- 
bago Indians. 

His oldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Thomas Win- 
star.ley, a prominent citizen here. Another daughter, Caroline, 
married Capt. John W. Eenshaw, Chief of Police. His youngest 
daughter, Josephine, is at present visiting friends in Connecticut. 
Henry E. is Captain of the boat, Samuel C. Christy. The Cap- 
tain's health being usually good, he will doubtless be able for some 
years yet to cheer his neighbors by his presence, and enjoy the 
remembrance of the good old times when he ferried over the Mis- 



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aissippi Col. Thomas II. Bonton, and other worthies of the nation. 
The Captain related at onr pleasant interview with hiiii the fol' 
lowirifij incident of Benton : 

"I remember the tirst time that 1 ever saw him. He was 
standing by me while I was steering. Wo were nearing the St. 
Louis side. Pointing to the lime stone rock cropping out at the 
river side, he said, 

'^ 'Do you see that front ? That is worth millions of money. 
You can take out stone right there and build your house.' " 

Capt. John Trondley's children, twelve in number, in the 
order of their nativit}-, are as follows : Paul, Elizabeth, Joseph, 
Mary, Peter, Harriet, John P., Henry E., Julius, William, Caro- 
line, Joso))hine. The Captain's wife died at 91 o'clock on Palm 
Sunday, 21st March, 1858. 

HON. SAMUEL S. HAKE, MAYOR OF EAST ST. LOUIS. 

His Honor the Mayor hails from the East. At an early day 
in the history of Illinois he was engaged in the work as contractor 
for the construction and furnishing of cars. One large and very 
valuable cargo of cars, in parts, which he made in his eastern 
manufactory, and shipped i ia Pittsburg down the Ohio to its 
mouth, up the Mississippi river to the mouth of the Illinois river, 
destined for the Jacksonville Railroad, never reached its destina- 
tion, and was never he.nrd from. He has been a resident hero for 
many years. At an early day in railroad history, when the O. & 
M. became a certainty, and seeing from its close proximity to St. 
Louis the importance of this location in the then future (now the 
present) he wisely remained here, acquired property, honorably 
occupied various important positions, and finally, at the April 
election in 1875 his appreciative fellow citizens elevated him to 
the Mayoralty. This important and difficult office. he not only 
holds, but fills to the satisfaction of friends and even of his polit- 
ical foes. 

Having traveled extensively and been a close observer of the 
elements of true progress in material prosperity, he favors all 
movements in that direction and actively engages personally and 
officiall}' in their promotion and accomplishrcent. Such men, 
while often necessarily rousing opposition and personal rancor 
by their activity, are themselves the best elements of progress 
and improvement in a city. 

HON. J. B. BOWMAN, EX-MAYOR AND CITY COUNSELLOR. 

This gentleman's business career is as remarkable as any in 
this city. He was born in Germany, and well educated there. 
He was engaged for three years at the trade of blacksmithing in 
a shop in Cahokia, twenty years ago. He taught school at Can- 
teen village ; after which ho studied law and was admitted to 
practice. Ho was for some years the agent of the Connecticut 



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Land Company, residing in East fSt. Louis. His genius for gov- 
ernment was soon recognized by the people, who elected him to 
the old Board of Trustees. He was chiefly instrumental in ob- 
taining a charter for the city of East St. Louis, and in engineer- 
ing Its passage through the Legislature of the State. His capa- 
city for work is simply immense. It is only equalled by the order 
and system of all he does. For a long time a half dozen of the 
riiilro ids centering here have employed him as their attorne}'. 
Since 18G5 bis career has run parallel with the history of the citj', 
on which his autograph is plainly written in public works of last- 
ing value. 

JOHN W. RENSHAW, CHIEF OF POLICE, 

Is a native of Madison County, Indiana, where ho was born 
24th of August, 1836. He removed to near Belleville in 1848. 
Here he was schooled and taught the :rade of plastering. In 
1856 he went south to Warren to-'. Miss., and engaged in the 
wholesale furniture business. In May, 1861, he returned north to 
Belleville, where he remained t'll 17th of January, 1865. He 
then received authority from Gov. Oglesby to raise a company of 
volunteer trooj^s, of which he was elected Captain. The Com- 
panj' was mustered into the 149th Illinois Infantry. It served in 
the South at various jDoints, among which were ISlashville, Knox- 
ville, Dallas, Ath.nta and Chattanooga. The Captain, with his 
oomj/any and regiment was mustered out of the service atDalton, 
Ga. He then returned to his home in Belleville. In 1868 he 
cast his fortunes in East St. Louis, and has had no cause to repent 
his choice nor the city to regret bis coming. 

He was appointed to the important trust of Chief of Police 
on the 27th of April, 1872, during Mayor Eyan's administration. 

On the 13th of May^ 1873, he was married to Miss Caroline 
Trendley, da'ughter of Capt, John Trendley. at his house, by 
Father Zebel, of the Eoman Catholic Church. 

HON. MAURICE JOYCE, COUNCILMAN, 

Came to East St. Louis in 1868. He commenced business in a 
small room on the corner of Main and Brady streets.' He hired 
no clerk, but did all iho work himself. His business grew so 
well as to enable him, in 1873, to erect a fipe throe story brick 
btructure, on the corner of Broadway and Main streets. This he 
uses at present as a residence and general grocers' establishment. 
Beside working as hard as ever himself, he now hires two clerks. 
He attributes his success mainly to the closeness ot his wholesale 
supply at St. Louis, enabling him to save ireight from the East. 
In the spring of 1873 he was nominated for Maj^or of the city, 
and received a very flattering vote. He was elected to the re- 
sponsible trust of Councilman from the First ward on the 6Lh of 
April, 1875. This office he holds at present. 



EAST ST. LOUIS. j^Q5 

HON. PATRICK H. VAUOIIAN, COUNCILMAN. 

The gentleman who is the subject of this sketch hails from 
the native land of Emmet, of O'Connell and of Sheridan. Like 
overj' true son of Erin he loves her and her heroes. His parents 
were John Vaughan and Bridget iloUoran. They were joined in 
raarria£!;o in the Roman Catholic Church four miles from the noted 
city of Limerick, County Clare, Ireland. Their family consisted 
of 3Iiehael, Patrick IIJ, John and James P. They lost their father 
by death when Patrick was 8 or 10 years of age. His mother, 
well knosving the utility of education, kept him at school as long 
as he remained at home. Ho started in early manhood, however, 
to seek his fortune in 

"The land of the froe, 

And the home of the brave." 

His mother, having done a mother's duty toward him, well 
knowing that America offered better opportunities to earnest en- 
deavor than her loved Emerald Isle, although her lip would 
quiver, and the unbidden tear would fall, and her heart was well 
nigh broken at the parting, yet she bravel}' bade her son good- 
bye, and gave him her blessing. In 1848, having embarked in 
the good sail ship Euphrasia, he^saw the glittering spires of Lim- 
erick for the last time fade from view. But Captain ^yarren took 
gor d care of his passengers, and among them the hopeful Patrick. 
They were six weeks on the voyage. Several interesting inci- 
dents occurred on the passage over. At one time in mid ocean 
tbey saw a m rchant nhip go down. She was not near enough to 
be helped by the Euphras a. Her merchandise Was lost. Her 
crew were picked up by the Euphrasia. At another lime they 
encountered a mass of icebergs and ice floes. Their ship became 
wedged among these till she was fast for four days. The sea 
seemed to have became solidly frozen around them. There was 
plenty of snow on the ice. Patrick and other young men, not 
knowing what other fun to start, sometimes teok a turn at snow 
bailing on the ice. They saw great numbers of seals upon the 
bergs and floes. The icebergs were higher than the masts of the 
ship. They arrived in Quebec in 1848. Patrick took the stage, 
or rather the stage took him, to Michael's, his oldest brother, at 
Susquehanna, PonHsylvania, who bad previously come to America 
and vvho was overjoyed to give an Irish welcome to his brother. 
He at once engaged as clerk in a store at Susquehanna, and con- 
tinued at it till 1850. Then he fired an engine on the Erie II. R., 
which was just built, till October, 1854. Being very observant, 
he learned during this time how to manage an engine. In Octo- 
ber 1854, he began engineering on the Elmira, Canandaigua and 
Niagara Falls Railway. His first engine was covered with brass. 
It was a beautiful piece of mechanical skill, called the Young 
America. The great Suspension Bridge across Niagara Falls 
was built while he was on the Road. He saw it in all stages of 
its progress almost from the beginning. He rode over on the 



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first trjiin that crossed it. after completion. There were thousands 
ot spectators on both the Canadian and American side of the 
Falls. This took place in January, 1855. On June 11th, 1855, 
Mr. Yaughan was married to Mis9 Jane Fui'lonaj, by Father 
O'Conner, in the Eoman Catholic Church in Canandaia;ua. Their 
children were eight, five of whom died in infancy. Those living- 
are Maria Sabinia, George Henry and Anna Belle. 

On the 6th of July, 1855, Mr. Vaughan and wife removed to 
Bloomington, III. He here engineered on the Chicago and Alton 
road till December, 1858. He then removed to Litchfield, and 
engineered on the road on which he is at present engaged. It 
was then named the Terre Haute, Alton and St. Louis, bui is now 
styled the Indianapolis and St. Lou^s railroad. 

He has by industry and economy acquired considerable prop- 
erty, including the handsome and comfortable residence in the 
First ward, in which he resides. He has attained a comfortable 
station in life, solely by his own exertions. Kecoguized by his 
fellow citizens of the First ward as the fit representative of their 
sentiments and interests, he was elected Alderman in 1868, and 
has served them in that capacity ever since, except a period of 
eighteen months. In the fall of 1874 he was nominated as Dem- 
ocratic candidate for the State Legislature, but declined the 
honor. In April, 1875, he was nominated for the Mayoralty, and 
received a very strong vote. While on a visit to bis brother, 
James F., in Pine Blufi", Arkansas, he was elected Director of the 
Co-operative Eail Mill in this city. 

HON. JOHN BENNER, COUNCILMAN. 

In the picturesque region of Khine Pfals, Bavaria, Germany, 
the parents of the subject ot this sketch, Mr. Peter Benner and 
Fraulein AnnaM. Hahn, were united in matrimony. John was the 
fourth of five children comprising his father's family. Their 
names were respectively, beginning with the first born, Charles, 
Matlin, Jacor:i, John and George P. Benner. John was born in 
Rhein, Bavaria, sometimes known as Pfalz, Bavaria, German}', 
on the 1st oi January, 1854. He was educated in his native 
place. He came to New York in the spring of 1848, and there 
learned the trade of shoe making, with Mr. Henry Klee>pies, for 
whom he worked three years. He then started out in the world 
for himself. In 1856 he came to Sterling, Illinois, where he en- 
gaged in varied business till the spring of 1859, when he went 
to Pike's Peak. Finding nothing he returned to Johnston county, 
Kansas, where he broke ] rairie sod, till he started for Portland, 
Whiteside County, Illinois. Having ai-rived there, he engaged in 
business till the fall ot 1859. He then went to New York City, 
and established himself in business as grocer with a partner, Mr. 
Daniel Ilager. 

His marriage with Miss Anna Blersh, a native of Wurtem- 



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burg, Germany, formed an important epoch in his life. This 
occurred in July, in 1861, in New Yorlc. The officiating clergy- 
man was Futlier Klemens. Mv. Benner remained in business six 
year^* with Mr. Hager. 

In Februarj', 1865, the attractions of Illinois loosened and 
broke the ties which bound hira to New York, and he went to 
Huno, Whiteside county, where ho farmed until the winter of 
1865-6. In 1866, having heard of the advantages for business 
possessed by this place ho removed hither. He at once engaged 
in the shoe dealing line in the house now occupied by Mr. Hinch- 
cliff as a hotel. In October of that year he removed up this 
street two blocks to his present place on Broadway, near the Post 
Office. AVhile following Benjamin Franklin's maxim, "Keep thy 
shop and thy shop will keep thee," he does no more, but engages 
skilled workmen to attend to the practical details, while every 
piece of work must pass the inspection of his experienced eyQ. 
At the April election, in 1872^ Mr. Benner was elected by his 
fellow citizens to the important public trust of being Alderman 
of the Second ward. He served the usual term of two years 
with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. 
At the close of his term he was re-elected in April, '74, to the same 
office, which he holds at present. He is also School Director, 
having beep, elected in '73. 

Mr. Benner is truly one of the people. Having depended 
solely upon his own resources, he now reaps the reward of patient, 
well- directed endeavor. 

HON. JOUN NIEMES, COUNCILMAN OF THIRD WARD. 

The place of Mr. Niemes nativity was in Ehine Pfalz, 
Barbara, whore ho was born, on the 15th of June, 1838. His 
father's family consisted of himself the oldest, William and 
Kathcrine now dead. His parents names we Henry P. Nieraes 
and Barbara Ledig. They were married in Khine Plaiz, Bava- 
ria. William was born there also, February 23, 1843. John went 
to school in his native place. When he was eleven years old, his 
parents removed to America. Starting on a steamer from Meints, 
sometimes called Ludwig, Haven, from an old German King, they 
sailed down the River Rhine, which rivals the Hudson in beauty 
to Rotterdam, on the North sea. Here they embarked on a three 
mast sailing vessel, on the 15th of June, 1850, uiriving in New 
York, July, 1850. 

The family settled at Tivoli Duchess County, New York, 
where they have since remained. The father was engaged there 
as in Germary, in the business of building. Both sons have con- 
tinued the trade. 

John commenced business on his own account in 1857. Ho 
arrived in St. Louis in 1858, and carried on building on both sides 
of the river. In June, 1861, he was married in St. Louis. In 



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1862, be removed to Eaft St. Louis, but returned on account of 
sickness to St. Louis. Finding the building business more remu- 
nerative, however, in East St. Louis, he removed here again in 
1864, where he has since remained. 

So briskly has he been engaged, that sometimes thirty men 
were necessarj'' to forward the work on hand. Among the promi- 
nent public and private buildings erected by Mr. Niemes, are the 
market house, m 1859 ; the Bowman building, three story brick, 
in 1871 ; William A. ^Yitte's residence, two story brick, castellated 
roof; St. John building, three story brick, in 1872; George 
Schaub's building, three story brick, in 1873 ; Green Tree House, 
three story brick, in 1873 ; Ileim's brewery, a large brick, in 
1873, and others, besides his own residence, in 1866, on Seventh 
street, between Illinois and St. Louis avenues, in which he resides. 
He has just taken the contract for, and commenced to build, on 
August 31, 1875, the Bank building, of brick, three stories, corner 
of iSroadwaj^ and Fourth street, for Louis Weise. 

Mr. J>Jie:nes was elected councilnian in the Second Ward at 
the April election, 1875, which honorable position he at present 
holds. 

HON. CHRISTIAN ROHM, ESQ., COUNCILMAN. 

The Christian names of Mr. Eohm's parents were Ppilip 
Eohm and Sophia Dauster. They were married in the year 
1834, in the Lutheran Church, in the Dukedom of Nassau, 
Germany, where Christian was born. 

He is the oldest son of four children. The names of the 
remainder of his father's family being Christiana the first born, 
Wilhelm and Wilhelmina. 

The excellent free schools of his native place were open to 
all the children, and at the village of Ohren where the school 
was held Christian obtained during an e^ght years course of 
instruction the usual branches of a German education. He 
attended school from his eighth to his fourteenth year. He then 
engaged in business as a clerk, in the employ of Herr Fredrick 
Tomas in the city of Frankfurt a Main. 

He, however, concluded to try his fortune in the new world 
and accordingly set sail for America. He arrived, after a some- 
what stormy voyage of thirt}^-four days, in a French ship, in New 
York citj', in the year 1855. In the same year he came to St. 
Louis. Hei^e he worked at butchering, and learned the trade. 
He was engaged at this business one 3^ear and two months. Hav- 
ing quit this employment, he turned his eyes toward the rising 
city of East St. Louis, where competition being less strong he 
expected better opportunities for a rise. He clerked in the store 
of Henry Swigart and Capt. Trend ley for two years and two 
months. By 1859 he had saved enough to go into business for 
himself, which he accordingly did. He carried on a store in 
partnership with Christian Beusso. In !1861 he returned to Mis- 



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souri and clerked for the n^xt three 3'ears and three months 
for Minko & Brother, at St. Paul Station on the Pacific 
railroad. But East St. Louis oifcring still increasing induce- 
raent-s to j-onng men, he returned here in 1866. lie formed a 
partnership with John Bairis and with him followed the buieher- 
ing business seven years. In 1873 he dis.solved parntership and 
started on his own account, in the same line, llis location was 
in the market house, where it is at present. He ' has a fine stall 
here, which ho superintends, but which is chiefly, carried on by 
hired labor. 

At the April election of this year (1S75) he was elected a 
councilman from the Fourth Ward, and holds that position at this 
time. His good education in Germany, his travel and varied 
experience in business gave him '2;ood opportunities for knowing 
the people's needs, and had a fine tendency to fit him for the 
honorable oflico which he has reached. 

HON. JOHN TEFFT, COUNCILMAN FOURTU WARD. 

Mr. Tefft is a native of St. Louis, where he was born on the 
14th of May, 1838. His parents were of Irish descent. He is the 
oldest of a family of eight. He was educated at the private and 
free schools of the above city. He also learned with Samuel 
Gaty & Co., railroad and steamboat blacksmithing. He removed 
to this city in 1852; still engaged, however, in the employ of 
Gaty & Co. 

Ill 1857 he engaged as foreman in the machine shops of the 
Ohio and Mississippi railroad at this place. He continued in this 
responsible position until September, 1871, when he engaged 
in the same capacity of foreman in the shops of the St. Louis 
and South-Eastern railway, taking charge of the Round-house 
in East St. Louis. Since that time to the present he has been 
actively engaged in this position. 

Ho was elected councilman of the Fourth Ward in the year 
1871. Serving one year, he was re-elected in 1872, and served 
two years. In April, 187-1, he was re-elected the third time, tor a 
period of two years. 

He is deserving of great praise for the energy of character 
displayed in holding so long the above responsible positions. 

HON. JOHN DOYLE, COUNCILMAN. 

Was born in County Waxford, Ireland, on the 9th of Jane, 1838, 
where ho was partly schooled. He was brought when thirteen 
years old to Quebec. They sailed from Waterford, Ireland in a 
eailship. They were seven week? on the way, ftnd were all sea- 
sick. From Quebec they went to Toronto, Canada and worked 
two years John then engaged in the grocery business, while his 
father returned to Ireland and brought over the family, consist- 
ing of mother, three brothers and two sisters. Of these John is 



no 



HISTORY OF 



the oldest. He went to night school in Toi'onto and perfected 
himself more fully in knowledge. He paid for the seliooling out 
of a very small salary. In 1857 he emigrated to East St. Louis, 
arrriving on the 23 of June. He went to work for Valentine & 
Co., now St. Louis Transfer company, and worked for them 
every since. In 1862 his father and family came here. John vras 
elected Alderman in Third Ward in the year when Col. Jarrot 
was elected Maj'or, has been re-elected several times and has 
served in that capacity every since. He also holds the post of 
school director, having been elected first in 1872, and again in 
1875. 

His father died in 1867, aged sixty-nine. His mother, over 
seventy years of age still lives. He was married to Miss Catharine 
Cooney, on August IS, 1867, in St. Patrick's Church by Father 
Zebel. Their children are five, four sons and a daughter. 

HON, NICHOLAS COLGAN, COUNCILMAN THIRD WARD. 

Mr. Colgan and twin brother named Eobert were the 
youngest of the family, consisting of themselves and sister Emma. 

ilis father, Eobert Colgan, was a native of Kentucky, and 
of Irish parentage. His mother was a native of the Territory 
of Missouri and of French jiarents. Her parents were among 
the defenders of the young territory, against the Indians. She 
was also a defender as once, when they were attacked on the 
Gasconade river where they Jived, she loaded the guns ior her 
father to use in their defense. His parents were married in St. 
Clair, Mo., where Nicholas was born on the 15lh of Februarj-, 
1826 He here attended a day school kept by Mr. Toomas. He 
was married in 1846 to Miss Louiza Cipprot, a French lady. In 
1853 he removed to Cape G-irardeau, Mo., and engaged in the saw 
milling business. In 1858 he was elected Justice ol the Peace in 
Cape Girardeau cou.ity. He resigned this oflice in 1860 and 
removed to St. Louis, and engaged in business. In 1865 he 
removed to East St. Louis ; returned to St. Louis in 1867, and 
again to East St. Louis in 1869. Here he engaged in the hotel 
and saloon business in the Third Ward. 

On the 6lh of April, 1875, he was elected to the office of 
Councilman in the Third Ward, which office he holds at the 
present. 

His residence is on Christy avenue between Second and 
Front street. His place of business on Missouri avenue, near the 
Eelay Depot. 

RICHARD ROE, GROCER. 

Commenced business in 1872, having built a store and dwell- 
ing two stories 20x10, and stocked with goods. He is building 
up a very nice trade, and is succeeding beyond his expectation. 
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the ship, expects to come out ahead. The store corner Sixth and 
Summit avenue, is situated in the midsi of an excellent loeuliiy. 

LOUIS PARENT, BUILDER. 

Began contracting here in 1867, to build brick houses. Built 
the packing; house at the National Stock Yards. It contains a 
million and a-half of brick. Mr. Parent has also built many of 
the brick hou.ses of this city, lie occupies a fine brick mansion 
on !Ninth street, between Summit and Pennsylvania avenue. 

IIOX. J. B. LOVINGSTOX, EX-SfAYOR. 

This gentleman, although having been actively engaged at one 
time in the politics of the city, and always an active business man, 
has perhaps as few enemies and as many friends as any other 
citizen of the place. Although of feeble physical health he pos- 
sesses a strong, clear and active mind. His style of acting, recalls 
to mi- d the aphorism of Lord Chesterfield '< Suaviter in modo, 
fortifer in re" mdd in maner, firm in execution, so gentle he seems 
in all his ways, and \'et, as the public records show so wise and 
determined in the execution of his p'ans. 

HOX. VITAL JAKROT, EX-MAYOR. 

Hon. Yital Jarrot is the son of Nicholas Jarrot, of French 
parentaife, who, after settling in Cahokia, at an early day amassed 
gi-eat wealth, as a merchant. At one time, almost all the com- 
merce of the West passed through his hands. From his general 
storehouse in Cahoka the merchants of St. Louis obtained their 
supplies. By his will he stipulated that to his son Viti.1 should 
be giveri as good an education as could be obtained, without 
regard to cost. Accordingly Vital received a classical education 
in Georgetown D. C. His alter career justified the hopes of his 
father. The chief officer in several private corporations he has 
honored every public trust reposed in him. Enjoying a vigorous 
old age, and believing it best to wear out rather than rust out, he 
superintends hi.s varied affairs with as much activity and wisdom 
as ever. He sets a noble example to those men of whom every 
community has too many, if it has but one, who idly waiting for 
something to turn up, soon find themselves turned up on the banks, 
a wreck and out of the rushing tide of prosperous human lite. 

Long may the venerable form of Col. Jarrot be seen among 
us. His refinement and polish with those of men of his loft}' 
stamp exert a salutary influence upon a too blunt and practical 
age. 

HON. .TOSEPH B. MES9ICK, CITY JUDGE. 
" Oh, wise youii<; judiTfc I 
How much'more elder art thou than thy looks."— [Shakespeare. 

His honor, the subject no;v under discussion, like most of 
our public men, reached his elevated position by his own exer 



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tions, Ilis life might he sikotchod in brief thus farnaer soldier — 
law st.itdent — lawyer — ■judLfe; bat he was longer reaching this 
last prize than it has taken to sketch the steps. Yet he has 
reached it comparatively soon in life. Man}^ have striven with- 
out success for years, to reach the Jiidgship, looked upon by the 
Iraternity, as the culminating experience in a lawyer's course of 
practice. 

He received the appointment this fall (1875) after a short 
career as lawyer, during part of which he was in partnership 
here with Hon. Thomas Quick, formerly a member of the legisla- 
ture of Illinois, and to whom was largelj^ due the chartering of 
the Western Division of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, against 
the JSIorthern State policy party of Illinois. East St. Louis owes 
a debt of gratitude to Hon. Thomas Quick for his exertions at 
that time in favor of the State granting a franchise to this great 
public work, the Ohio and Mis^jissippi railroad, which gave the 
imperative command " Forward march I" in the lino of progress 
and improvement to Bast St. Louis, and indeed to all of southern 
Illinois and Missouri. The association of these two gentlemen has 
been of mutual advantage. 

MR. JAMES W. KIRK, AUDITOR. 

James W. Kirk, born in Byron, Genesee county, New York, 
of Irish Catholic parentage, was brought up to the dry goods 
and grocery business. Attended the school of his native town, 
and then the Baiavia (N. Y.) Collegiate Institute, and finished 
at the State N )rmal School at Brockport, New Yorlc, Taught 
school in his native town after returning from Normal School. 
Was a candidate for Town Collector of Byron in '6^, but the town 
being largely Republican he was beaten. In '65 he was Secretary 
of a circle of the Fenian Brotherhood in Batavia, N. Y., and in 
'66 went as a delegate to the Troy (N. Y.) congress. He has been 
clerk in the dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes business, and 
also a clerk in Post offices. Express offices and Eailroad offices in 
his native town. Came to St. Louis in June, '71, and soon after 
to this place, and engaged in the sewing machine business. Was 
appointed City Auditor on July 7, '72, and has held the position 
ever since. Is at present a member of the County Democratic 
Central Committee and Secretary of the same. Has been cor- 
respondent of the St. Louis Daily Times and the St. Louis Eve- 
ning Dispatch for the past two year?, and is acting in the same 
capacity at the present time. 



ALBERT M. MEINTS 



Wholesale and Retail Grocer. 

Formerly of St. Louis, came to East St. Louis in June, 1866, 
and was employed as clerk for Henry Jackeisch, for nearly two 



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yearfl. He opened a store for himself on tbe 14tb of April, '68, 
and lias been one of' the most successful grocers in this city, 
alwaj's attended btrictly to his bu-sinessj having had experience 
now for over twenty-two years. In June, '68, he built a fine 
two story brick store and dwelling on the corner of Fourth 
{Street and Missouri avenue, where he is still doing a very large 
business, both wholesale and retail. He has made extensive 
improvein<'{its,in property, having built some ten or twelve dwell- 
ing and f^tore houses, which he rents out. He is also running a 
large Fire Claj^ Mine in St. Louis county, which is said to be of 
the best fire clay in the State of Missouri. In this branch, Hon. 
John B. Lovingston is his partner, they jointly having invested 
over fort}' thou.'»and dollars in the same. He is also connected 
with other branches of trade in this city. And in short is success- 
ful in every branch that he is connected with, and bids fair for 
a great future. 

HON. WM. G. KASE. 

The subject of this sketch is a native of the Keystone 
State; having been born in iSTorthumber'and County, Pennsyl- 
vania, in the year 1839. His father, Gen. William H. Ivase led a 
military lite, being an acting Major General daring the twen- 
ty years preceding his demise. The son received an excellent 
education at those old established seats of learning, the Danville 
Academy and Louisbourg Universit}", Pennsylvania. Ho then 
read Jaw with the distinguished Pennsylvania jurist, Hon. 
.Joshua AV". Comley, at Danville, m the above Slate. Having 
satisfactorily finished his course of elementary stud}^, he passed a 
rigid examination, and in the spring of 1863, was admitted to the 
bar. Coining West, and remaining at Belleville one year with his 
brother, the Hon. S. M. Kase, as his law partner, in 1864 he 
lacated in East St. Louis. 

He was elected by the people the next year. Judge of the 
City Court of Eecord, He succeeded in discharging the delicate 
and difficult duties imposed by this trust, wiih credit to himself 
and to the general satisfaction of the people. 

By an act of the legislature the jurisdiction of the court was 
reduced, when he resigned the Judgeship He was a delegate from 
tliis, the XVIIih Congressional District, to the Peace Convention, 
which convened in Philadelphia, in 1866. His well known 
activity, and sagacity in council, enabled him to perform an im- 
portant part in the deliberations of that august assembly. Doubt- 
less had it met some years earlier in our history, the pain of 
Many a heart, and the sundering of many a domestic, social, 
churchly and sectional tie would have been averted. 

'• The saddest w^rds of tonjrue or pen, 

Are these, it might have been " — [John G. ♦Tliittier. 

Judge Kase, upon his return from Philadelphia at once 
engaged in active affairs in this city, and has since then been one 

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of the most aciive and energetic of oui- citizens; assisting with his 
means and counsel in all public improveraents, 

lie was elected in 1874, a representative from St. Clair 
County to the twenty-ninth general assembly ot Illinois. In the 
exercise of this high trust he labored hard for the true interests 
of the people, which fact, to day, leaves him a popular man with 
his constituents. 

Judge Kase is personally one of the most affable and cour- 
teous of gentlemen. Easy of approach, and sympathizing with 
the struggles of the poor^ a distressed child as reaaily obtains his 
attention, sympathy and aid as the lordliest client, who, in the 
enjoyment of all that love of case, and taste can sugge'*t, rolls on 
gilded wheels with state and pomp to his door. 

We may add in closing that politically Judge William G. 
Kase ranks with the most popular men of this section of the State. 

nOV. J. D. MANNERS, EX CITY JUDGE, 

Was born 12Lh of June, 1819, near Bloomington, Monroe Co., 
Indiana, whore also he was educated. Ho studied law with the 
lirm of Howard and Wright, Paik county, Indiana, and was ad- 
mitted to practice in August, 1843. 

He was united in marriage on the 15th of May, 1845, to Miss 
Susan A. Proctor, daughter of John and grand daughier of the 
historic Little Page Proctor, one of three Methodist preachers of 
ttiat name who were companions of Daniel Boone. Together 
with Boone, ir, Kentucky, at one time, they were of a few sur- 
vivors of a gallant band of whites, who, in a bloody contest last- 
ing all day with Indians, on the "Dark and Bloody Ground," 
successfully defended Boone's fort and their hearthstones against 
the red men. The Indians declared that they would annihilate 
the whites or die in the attempt. They were forced to do the 
latter, scarcely one escaping. 

In 1845, Mr. Manners removed his family to Alton, whence, 
after practicing law until 1853, he settled in Highland ; practiced 
there until 1866, when he came to East St. Louis. Gov. Oglesby 
appointed him Judge of the City Court of East St. Louis on the 
1st of October, 1867. He was reappointed by Gov. .John M. 
Palmer on the 30th of August, 1871, after which he held the ofiice 
four years. He is at present engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. 



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CHAPTER XIV, 



GENERAL FEATURES. 



As has been noticed by you, my dear reader, the Island now 
forms the western part of the cit}', lying where the main shore 
■was in 1800. Now go with me and I will point out, as we proceed . 
the remaining land and water features. 

Lot us look around on th3 I.slund before we leave it. At the 
head stands the Sugar Kefineiy, an enterprise started this year 
on a successful career. Near it is the old East St. Louis stock 
yard, formerly a place of active business. Proceeding southward 
we pass successively the freight depot of thirteen railroads, 
terminating here. Conspicuous among them we notice the huge 
initials " U. & M," on the depot of the western terminus ot the 
pioneer railroad line of the United States, the Baltimore and 
Ohio. Tiie corner stone of that road was laid on the southwest 
line of Baltimore on the 4th of Jul}'-, 1828. It was laid with 
most itnj)osing ceremonies, by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, the 
only surviving signer of the Declaration of Iiidepondenco. He 
said *' I consider this next to ray signing the Declaration oi 
Independence, if even it be second to that, the most impjrtant 
act of my life." Sinee thai day steam travel and traffic, and the 
increase of the vast system of railroads in the United States, is 
unprecedeited. Two great uncles of the author, Thomas Ellicott, 
of EUicott's Mills and Nathan Tyson, of Baltimore were directors 
in the B. & O. Company, in 1828. 

The upheaval of the first shovelful of -earth was by Mayor 
Kennett, lor the O. & M. at this place; it was attended by thousands 
of people, with imposing ceremoii}'. Its opening in June, 1857, 
was also celebrated for several days in St. Louis, and attended 
by the dignitaries of the nation. The first locomotive was built 
at and named the <'York" in Pennsj'lvania, in 1830. This was 
the native place of the author. 

Other railroads terminating here after the Ohio and Missis- 
sippi, were the Chicago and Alton ; Rockford, Pock Island and 
8t. Louis, Chicago Through Line, Illinois Central (branch) Illi- 
nois and Si. Louis, Indianapolis and St. Louis ; Toledo, Wabash 
and Western, St. Louis VandaUa, Torre Haute and Indianapolis 
The St. Louis and Southeastern, the Cairo vShort Line, beside other 
lines, which charter the use of the tracks of these I'ailways, 



2 j^ g ;history of 

STEAMBOAT TRAFFIC. 

The great improvements at the mouth of the Missigsippi river, 
now in progress under the leadership of Capt. James B. Eads, 
•will undoubtedly have the tffect of restoring the importance of 
the sleamboating interest. As much so as the building of the 
dyke here, effected the restoration of this harbor. Ocean steam 
ships drawing twent^^ feet of water can then sail directly into the 
harbor of JS'ew Orleans. Then the floating palace and palace car 
will equally compete. 

"We pass Hon. J. B. Lovingston'g fine property, a block of 
houses. The next prominent object is the bridge across the Mis- 
sissippi. This rivals in splendor and utility the celebrated bridges 
of the old world. It was erected by Capt. James B. Eads, Col. 
Flad consulting engineer. It waR finished in IST-i, and cost nine 
million dollars. 

"What steamers are those continually crossing and recrossing, 
passing and repassing each other on the river, carrying freight, 
cattle and passengers ?" " Those are the boats of the Wiggin's 
Ferry Company." 

"How many have they in use?" "They use twelve steam- 
boats and tugs." 

" I supposed the freight and passengers would all cross on the 
bridge ?" Oh no, the ferry has more work now than before the 
bridge was built." 

" Don't they divide the crossing business since then ?" " St. 
Louis commerce works the other way. It has more than doubled 
since." 

" Are there other ferries ?" " There are." 

"How many?" "There are nine ferries beside the Wig- 
gins, constantly busy between the cities of St. Louis and East St. 
Louis." 

" Then the Bridge Co. does not do much ?" " On the contrary 
the crossing of all kinds of vehicles is so great that laborers are 
almost continually engaged repairing the worn planks on the 
road ways over the top, besides the street cars are continually 
crossing passengers, while thousands cross on foot, and the 
thunder of the freight, stock aid passenger trains through the 
bridge on the lower tracks scarcely ceases day nor night." 

All over this Island, forming the west part of the city, the 
lively business aspects are very interesting. Here the car i-at- 
ling ov'r the stony streets, is the welcome music that salutes 
the ear of the observer. The Island has the Piesbyterian Church 
and Douglas public school. Passing eastward the second natural 
feature that we see is the old Eastern Channel of the river. Under 
the eaistern appoach of the great bridge we see the Avenue Dyke, 
the one built to restore and preserve the port of St. Louis. This 
is now part of a fine street, the Broadway of East St. Louis, 
which extends eastward to Pecan Grove, the last building on it 
being the splendid brick structure, St. Henry's Eomau Catholic 



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Church, 8omo of the statutes in which cost a thousand dollars each. 
To the loft is Howruan's Dj^ke crcs ing the old channel Ironi iho 
Island to the Rohiy Depot, there ntieeiing Missouri avenue, another 
tine thoroughfare cros.sing the city eastward and destined to ho a 
leading business street. Trestle works for the railroads, also 
cross the old channel from the Island eastward, north and t-outh 
of the dykes. A third prominent dyke, which, as were the 
others, was erected at great cost, is the Vaughan Dyke. 

Take a look eastward from the Island upon the old chan- 
nel. Eemember this as the second feature of the city site. Fo\- 
lowing the examples of older cities East St. Louis, by public 
and private enterprise, will build up this expanse of water 
between the dykes and crossings, and turn it back as it was in 
1800, to solid land. Then it will be platted into streets and lots, 
and sold at fabulous sums per foot fronting on the dykes. State- 
ly edifices will rise like the Italian Venice from the eea, and this 
expanse of water that now looks so strangely will form one of 
the most substantial parts of the place. Remember that this old 
channel is now to East St. Louis, as the wide moats were to the 
ancient cities. When the art of man hhall have been brwught to 
bear upon it, it will become all that man can wish it to be. 

Lot us cross the Avenue dyke, see this long strip of land 
lying along side east of the old channel. This is what remains 
of that fine body of timbered land half a mile wide, which in 
1800, divided Cahokia creek and the Mississippi. To this com- 
plexion it had come at last. That body of land became so nar- 
row, only at this place; above and below the c^ty it is wider. 
This strip is now probably fifty paces wide. It has upon it 
stores, dwellings and public houses. We cross it eastward and 
come to the old bridge crossing Cuhokia creek. This creek 
traverses the city from north 10 south in this part. It has upon 
it manufactories, [•rominent among which, is Mr. Hozeis's East St. 
Louis flouring mill j Co-operative rail mill and Gas works. Tlie 
creek affords an unlimited supply of soft water. lis classic banks 
are destined at no distant day to be as burdened with busy 
machinery as anj'^ stream of New or Old England. Crossing the 
Cahukia, you reach its eastern bank, and soon after the East St. 
Louis Relay Depot. Here the ringing locomotive bell continually, 
salutes and warns j'ou of passing trains, to and from all points ot 
the compass. The freight trains bringing and taking the pro- 
duce ot every clime, and the passenger trains carrying peo^jle of 
ever}' nationality. 

"When time allows you can visit this air}^ comfortable depot, 
and see the passing trains and the clockwork precision with 
which the vast business here is transacted by the gentlemen who 
are the officers, and those who are om|)lo3'ed in minor affairs. But 
to return to view the siiej eastward from the Cahokia the land is 
level as a floor, and rich as the valley of old Nile. On this 
plateau were the recorded surveys made of ** Illinois," Illinois 



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city, St. Clair and "town of East St.L.ouis/' which are naw witb 
other lands and streams embraced within the city limits. 

THE PRE99. 

'"There's a chiel amang ye takhi' notes, an' faith fee'll prent 'em."— [Burns. 

How my heart warms toward a printer ! Instantly when I 
raeet him mental pictures of Faust, and Gattenburg, and Franklin, 
arise to my mind. Every sound in a printing office becomes the 
echo of the music which accompanied their early and successful 
toils. The very ^'devil" seems to have no evil in bira. Every 
newspaper and every book are to me richer copies of Faust'^* 
^'first yjroof." The act of printing appears to be the actual em- 
bodiment of thought. The thinker gives birth to thought, the- 
printer gives it an enduring habitation. 

No higher ambition had our illustrious Benjamin Franklin^ 
tbo patriotic American Philosopher, who held many high publie 
trusts, than at death to have inscribed over his grave, this e|tilapb 
written by his own hand, in 1728, when twenty-thrcQ years 
of age : 

THE B O D Y 

— OF — 

BENJAMIN FEANIvLIN, 

FrmteTy 

Like the cover of an old book. 

Its contents torn out,. 

And stript of its lettering and gildings 

Lies here, food for worms. 

But the vfork shall not be lost j 

For it will (as he believed) appear once raor& 

In a new and more elegant edition 

Eevised and corrected 

—BY — 

THE AUTHOR. 

After the subscription is duly paid what a debt of gratitud© do 
I owe the printer. He gathers for me the local news wii.h eare^ 
■with accuracy and dispatch. He pays men to travel in distant 
places to get the news for me. He stvmmons the telegmph to 
dart its lightning questions round the world and bring me answers 
in from every clime. He is the ehief of condensers. He clothes 
the best and newest thought in the fewest words. "Young man," 
said an aged printer, "weigh your worda,^ and you will find that 
each one weighs a pound.^^ 

AMERICAN BOTTOM GAZETTE. 

This was the first newspaper printed on the site of this city. 
Its first issue was in 1841 or 1842. It was printed by S. I). 
Lumrix. 



EAST ST. LOUIS -| -J q 

EAST ST. LOUIS GAZETTE — OFFICIAL JuURNAL OF THE CITY. 

This excellent paper was started in 18G'). The first number 
was issued June 28, 1866, by John Macaulej' and Joseph Crabb. 
The lattei remained in four months, then sold out to Louis vStraub. 
In 1871 this firm was dissolved. The pai)er continued to be pub- 
lished by Wm. O'Neil. The ownership then vested in a stock 
company. On 1st Februar}-, 1878, John Macauley resumed its 
publieaiion, and has continued it lo the jDresent time, 1875. It 
has been the official organ of the city from the date of the first 
issue. It is however, independent in politics, and aims only to 
foster and advance the interests of the city. It is now edited by 
Mr. F. 13. Bowmaa. 

EAST ST. LOUIS PRESS. 

This paper, now under the able editorship of Mr. H. D, 
O'Brien, was originally named "The People's Gazette." The in- 
itial number was issued on Saturday, ISih of Jul}^, 1871. It was 
published under the auspices of the '^People's Gazette Associa- 
tion," of whom the followinsr citizens were officers: The Direct- 
ors, were Vital Jarrot, J. B. Lovingston, Henry Schall, h. M. St. 
John, Marcus P'inch, John 0. Butler, M. Millard, Michael Dar- 
mody, Maurice Joj'ce, Ernest Wider, John Macauley, Patrick H. 
Slack and John Eddy. Of this Board of Directors, Vital Jarrot 
was President, Maurice Joj'ce was Vice President, Henry Schail 
was Treasurer, and Marcus Finch was Secretary. Mr. Sallicl be- 
came its editor and manager in 1872. The name was changed to 
the East St. Louis Press in 187-3. At that time W, B. Fairchild 
was its editor. 

Mr. Smith was editor in 1873-4. 

The proprietors began publishing a daily on September 21sti 
1874. Owing to financial reasons the Press was for a short time 
suspended in the summer of 1875. Mr. H. D. Q'Brien, however, 
whose energy wo cannot enough commend, who had been its 
editor for some months, bought the press and fixtures, and con- 
tinuing the weekly issue, gives the public, instead of the oldDail}', 
the "Tri- Weekly Press." 

NATIONAL STC'CK YARD REPORTER. 

We measure this publishing venture bj' its success. It was 
founded in November, 1873, by Messrs. John Haps & Co., iis then 
and present owners and publishers, who printed three numbers and 
suspended. In March. 1874, they recommenced. The first issues 
were taken to the Post Office hy Mr. Hips, during the first month 
in his coat pocket. During the next in a small tied package. In 
four months, however, a small sack was used. At present the 
issue of 5,000 copies requires three of the largest of Uncle Sam's 



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mail bags. Each week it reports in detail the daily receipts and 
sales at the National Stock Yards. 

ST. CLAIR TRIBUNE. ■• 

The enterprising young men, Messrs. Willis E. Finch & Bro., 
who originated this paper on the 4th of February, 1875, are its 
owners as well as its publishers. They issued the firft number 
on the 18th of the above month. They publish a staunch, out- 
spoken Republican newspaper, whose motto, "Republican, Prot- 
estant and Progressive," clearly indicates its tone. It is published 
on one of the best travelled thoroughfares in the eity, Missouri 
avenue, on the second floor of the Jackeisch buildirg. Notwith- 
standing the very recent date of the origin of the St. Clair Trib- 
une, it already has a circulation of five hundred copies per week. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

ORIGIN AND PRESENT STATUS OF TKE NATIONAL LIVE STOCK INTEREST. 

On the cxtremo northeast side of the city of East St. Louis 
are the National Slock Yards, a particular description of which 
is elsewhere given. They comprise 656 acres, enclosing 100 acres, 
and have 60 acres shedded. The trade in live stock now culmi- 
nating there was originally transacted at a point near by, in East 
St. Lonis, called Papstown, or New Brighton. It was called the 
former liom the founder, a Mr. Condit, who built and kept the 
first house as a tavern. People called him '*Pap," and the place 
Papstown. He was an Englishman. His descendants are now 
among the most prominent ci.izons of Centralia, this State, Hon. 
E. S. Condit, "pap's" son, having been a long time Mayor of that 
place, and now President of the First National Bank. Brighton 
18 a noted cattle mart in England. Hence the name New Brighton 
was very appropriately applied to this great western cattle mar- 
ket. Mr. Wettig, a former Postmaster of East St. Louis, also 
kept tavern at Papstown. He kept thew first Bank in East St. 
Louis in an old trunk. Sometimes h^ had ^10,000 in it. A Hiock 
man would come in and say, "Wettig, here, take this, and keep it 
for me j I have no place to put it." Mr. Wettig would say, "well, 
ril keep It for )'ou." He al30 relates, "I gave no receipt, and 
took no note; yet I never lost a cent." "I tell you that Paps- 
town was a money-making place." "Condit made lots of money." 
"Ho used to treat it like rags." 

Once he missed six hundred dollars. They hunted for it high 
and low. Finally Condit remembered that ho had put it iti a 
straw bed. This bed had been emptied in the barn j'ard some 
time before. They looked there among the dirt and stiaw, and 
found it. "Pap" Gondii's first house here he built of grub plank 
frem the rafts. Hero he sold spruce beer, which he made himself. 
Now the great Brewery of the Messrs. Heim Brothers is built on 
the opposite side of the street from this site, whi ;h is on the 
cornor of Tenth street, Illinois avenue and St. Clair turnpike. 

Jacob Strawn, the celebrated Illinois stock drover, used to 
stop wiih his droves for St. Louis with Condii. The lite of 
Strawn was or thrilling interest and full of incidents. Oni-e the 
buyers of St. Louis refused to give him his price. He compelled 
them to do so by making a corner on beef by stationing his men 
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advanced to his figure, and he sold out to suit himself. He was 
immensely wealthy. He had a farm, yet owned by his widow, in 
Morgan count}', comprising thousands of acres^ having mawy ten- 
ants upon it, whom he employed to raise corn and feed his cattle. 
Mrs. iStrawn lives near Jacksonville, and is known as the dispenser 
of charities far and near. 

The old time traditions of the St. Louis cattle ir^de, and the 
prestige of Strawn and other active dealers have culmnated in 
theye truly grand National Stock Yards. Indeed, this immense 
interest is only second to the great steam interests of the nation. 

THE NATIONAL STOCK YARD COMPANY, 

Originally consisted of President A. M. A[lerton,of the firms 
of AUerion, Dutcher & Moore, and National Drove Yara, New 
York ; Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, 11. M. Moore, of New 
York ; Azariah Boody, President Toledo, >Yabash and Western 
Eailwny, New York; Augustus Schell. the attornej^ of Commo- 
dore Vanderbilt, and Vice President of the Lake Shore and Mich- 
igan Southern Eailroad, New York ; J. B. Dutcher, New York 
Central and Hudson Eiver Railroad, New York; T. C. Eastman 
and A. M. White, capitalists. New York ; H. H. Huston, of Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, Philadelphia ; I. N. McCullough, President of 
the Pennsylvania Company, Pittsburgh ; Oscar F. Townsend, 
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, and Indianapolis Railroad, 
Cleveland ; John B. Bowman, East St. Louis ; and Andrew Pierce, 
of the Atlantic and Paeiiic Railroad, New York. 

There have since been added the lollowing additional stock- 
holders : Hon. W. H. Vanderbilt, heir of the Commodore; Van- 
derbilt's son-in-law, Horace F. Clark, now deceased ; Hon. J. B. 
Duicher, Vanderbilt's confidential agent; Hon. Thomas Scott, 
President of the Erie and other Roads, and Hon. J. H. Banker. 

The present officers are : Hon. Isaac H. Knox, Banker, of 
New York, and resident in St. Louis, President : Col.R M.Moore, 
Secretary and Assistant Treasurer; Superintendent, Joseph Mul- 
hall ; Assistant Superintendent^ J. Green Cash ; Hon. J. B. Bow- 
man, Attorney. 

The land originally was four hundred acres adjoining the 
northeast side of the city. It was bought of Messrs. Bowman 
and Grisw' Id. Two hundred and fifty -six acres have since been 
added. The covenants with the city, noticed elsewhere, were 
fulfilled, and the National Stock Yards formally o^pened to the 
world in October, 1873. 

The distinguished men at the head of the Company cannot 
fail to command the respect of all, nor to absolutely control at 
this point the vast cattle trade of the west. The result of this 
cannot but be beneficial to the two classes of tlie public who sup- 
ply and consume the beef and pork. Here sellers and buyers are 
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markets of tho E;ist and of the world bcinijj constanlly known 
here by means of the telegraph, values are nicely graded to the 
actual needs of consumers. 

Tho Company hare constructed at their own expense a large 
sewer to the Mississippi river, whence is conducted under ground 
all ordure from the yards. 

The following figures show the amount of business done tiero 
in one vear, 1874 : " 

Caule received, 233,S29 head. 

Hogs " 492,471 " 

Sheep " 40,608 " 

Ilorses and Mules received, 2,534 head. 

This statement was kindly furnished tho writer by Colonel 
Moore. — ^Ed. 

Connected with tho National Stock Yards is Messrs. Richard- 
son's Packing House. Thisi was built in 1873-4. Its cost was 
§125,000. Its c:.pacity is to slaughter 6,000 iiead of hogs per day. 

Beside the hogs killed and packed in 1874, they killed, packed 
and shipped to New York 5,000 head of catile. They made 4,000 
tierces of" lard of 300 lbs. each. They can kill and pack 200 head 
of cattle per day. Messrs. Eichardson & C>. desire to extend to 
both St. Louis and East St. Louis facilities to do all their butch- 
ering at their packing house, instead of, as now,coriipelling every 
butcher to run his own shop, and his horned cattle through the 
streets to the endangering of the lives and limbs of passers. 

This is a humane propositioM^ as numbers of persons have 
been gored to death by reason of the exis c.iee of irresponsible 
driving of single cattle, frightened, wild anil maddened, by sepa- 
rating tVom their fellows. The cost to the batcher would be no 
more if killing at the National Stock Yards, and perhaps would 
be less, as the facilities are better. Two men can keep clean this 
great house for their acoinraodation at mu'^li less cost than the 
500 butchers of the city can keep their 500 private slaughter 
houses, thus costing each butcher less than now. 

This question was settled at Paris by tlie first Napoleon, in 
favor of a general slaughter house. He established the Parisian 
Abattoir, in the Forest of Borgne, near Paris, where he caused 
the butchers to take all their stock and ],repare their meat for 
market. Such an abattoir tho National Siock Yard Company, 
through Messrs. Richardson, desire to establish for the cities of 
St. Louis and East St. Louis. It is a great move looking toward 
the health, safety, profit and convenience of all. 

North of the great brick Packing House stands a large white 
house with no windows, to which we now re])air. This contains 
the 

WATERWORKS OF THE NATIONAL STuCK YARDS. 

They were built in 1873, bj- William Bt-ment, engineer, who 
has had them since in charge. The building is seventy feet high. 



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Supported at the top by immenso timber-', crossed and bi'aced in 
all directions in the main part of the buildintr, from the ground 
up, are three great wooden tanks, holding 600,000 gallons of Ca- 
hokia creek water. It is conveyed by main pipes, 8 inches in 
diameter, to the vast yards, and through its avenue and streets 
by mains 3 inches in diameter. In the yards are 27 fire hydrants 
connecting with the mams. To these^ rubber and linen hose are 
connected in case of fires. Several more manufactories in the 
vicinity could be supplied by these works in the same way. 

The following on these yards is from E. Ware & Co.'s pamphlet, 
St. Louis, 1875 : 

'•The founders of the National Stock Yards were, either by 
accident or choice, exceedingly fortunate in the selection of land 
far removed above the level of probable inundation. When the 
Mississippi had attained its highest point this season, and East St. 
Louis was threatened with disaster, it was ascertained by actual 
survey that the National Yards were situated nearly fourteen feet 
above the highest recorded point, and that at a time when portions 
of the Union Yards were dangerously submerged ; so marked, 
in fiact, was the difference of level that the drainage of the Na- 
tional Yards was not interfered with in any appreciable degree. 
Thoroughness seems to have characterized everything about the 
construction of these magnificent yards. Every post in the 
ground is cedar, and a million and a half of money has not been 
idly spent in bringing them to their present state of finish and 
prosperity. 

♦'Mention has already been made of the rapidity with which 
stock can be transferred from the Missouri side to the National 
Yard-<, and as this is a matter which closely interests the t»hii)per, 
and is calculated more or les-s to affect the value of iiis stock, it 
may be well to explain as fully as possible precisely what ground 
the transfer covers, and the mear's by which it is effected. All 
stock consigned to St. Louis from the Stales and Territories west 
of the Mississippi river, as well as from the States east of that 
natural boundary, south of the Ohio river, excepting onl^-asmall 
percentage from river points in Tennessee, comes in either over 
the Atlantic & Pacific, the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern, or 
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Eailways, The Atlantic 
& Pacific takes stock for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Atch- 
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Kansas Pacific, and Missouri Pacific 
Roads, and connects both at Carondelet and the Bridge. The 
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, which is a combination of 
the St. Louis & Iron Mountain and the Cairo & Fulton, connects 
with the Texas Central, the International, the Little Rock & Fort 
Smith, and at Belmont with the Mobile & Ohio Railwa3\ and has 
Carondelet for its point of transfer. The St. Louis, Kansas City 
& Northern does not connect at present either with the Bridge or 
Carondelet — the station last named being on the river about nine 
miles below St. Louis, and the principal seat of the iron manu- 
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Yards is by the East St. Louis and Carondolot Eailway, built un- 
der the auspices oi' John VV. Conlogue, a railroad man of cotisid- 
crable repute, and the man above ail others to whose untiring 
cneri^y and bu-iness forecast, East St. Louis owes much of her 
present carrying tr^de. The East St. Lous & CarondelotKailway 
is a fraction over nine miles in length, and was built exclusively 
for the transfer trade. They have constructed four river ap- 
proaches, two on each side, and make the transfer without break- 
ing bulk by moans of two steambot^ts, having a transfer capacity 
of two hundred and fiti^'-five cars per day of ten hours. Suppos- 
ing a train of stock consigned to the National Stock Yards com- 
ing off the Atlantic and Pacific Iload, instead of being taken to 
the yard in St. Louis, it could be switched at Kirkwood and run 
to Carondelet ; the river transfer would be efTected in thirty 
minute'^, an'd in a little over the same length of time the stock 
could be resting in the pens. There is no delay permitted in the 
handling ot stock — the orders ot the ofiicers in this connection 
being imperative. 

"The Bridge transfer is made by the Transit Company. All 
stock intended for this route is taken to the j-ard at the Union 
Depot, St. Louis, and there delivered to the Transit Company, 
who do not lose any time in trans^i'erring it to the National Y'^ards; 
thirty minutes from point to point is all the time necessary for 
effecting the transfer. All stock should be consigned either via 
Bridge or \'ia Carondelet; in either case the National Yards as- 
sume the cost of transfer, the shipper only having to provide for 
charges from point of shipment to St. Louis." 

The private residences in this, "Illinois and St. Clair," part 
of East St. Louis are of a very comfortable and tastly character. 
Among them are those ot Vital Jarrot, Pres. East St. Louis Bank, 
his eon-in-law, Louis Bobinot, Esq., Luke Hite, Attorney at 
Law ; L. M. St. John, Mr. Miller, Mr. Beasly, Mr. Campbell, Mr. 
J^ancaster-, Messrs. Keys, Stock Commission Merchants; Mr. 
ilichardson, Pork Merchant, Mr. Chouteau, a descendant of the 
founder of St. Louis, and Thoaaas Winstanley, Ranker. 

Taking the street cars which run from here to the Union 
ilelay Depot, and to the Eads' bridge, we are some time in 
reaching either. We notice the long lines of gas lamps; on either 
wide we see residences of various styles. A few of the latter are 
for rent at prices ranging from $12 to ^25 per month. Occasion- 
ally we see beautiful three story bricks with castellated mansard 
roofs, earnests of the style of architecture coming into vogue. 
We pass the large newly painted twelve room Middle School buil- 
ding. We notice the East St. Louis Bank building, with its hand- 
some oflice rooms above and below. Turning here to the right 
on the corner of CollinsviUe and Missouri avenues, we notice on 
the latter the stately Jackiesch building, with its fine hall, store 
and offices, with its handsome pier glass windows and gilt signs. 
Here is the office of the -'St. Clair Tribune." The right hand 



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side of the street is nearly filled with buildings and offices, includ- 
ing the " Manners House" and office of Marcus Finch, real estate 
agent. On the let'i, apposite this we see the fine store of Mr. 
Becker, and the Market House, with free 'stone facings, a hand- 
some building, containing also the public offices of the city, 
including that of the Mayor, with ihe city and police court, and 
the office of Chief Renshaw. Directly opposite is the imposing 
Bowman building, the business place of Hon. John B. Bowman, 
near by is the office and printing house of The East St. Louii< 
Gazette. Another lofty structure near it is the city engine house. 
"We pass, also on Missouri avenue the fine Meintz building, and 
further on stores, eating houses and dwellings. 

Now returning to the old Cahokia bridge, we will pass on to 
Broadway. To the left we see on the corner the fine brick, the 
''Green Tree House," three stories high, occupied by stores and 
halls. Further down we see the St. John building, occupied by 
Henry Schall's dry goods store, Mr. Kyle's art gallery, and by 
various law and insurance offices. 

On the opposite side is the Post Office and Mr. E. W. Wider's 
handsome drug store. Passing several stores, among them wc 
notice the office of Dr. Illinski, a Polish Prince, who settled here 
at an early day, having spurned oppression in his native Poland. 
The next fine brick is the store and residence of Mr. Maurice 
JoyrCj memlDcr of the City Council. Next is a large hardware 
store, both built on high grade. At this corner, looking to the 
right, we see the new and elegant Methodist Church, not 3'et quite 
finished. Prof. J. W. Whittlesey, late of the Howe Literary In- 
stitute, here in the basement organized the East St. Louis Semi- 
nary, Sept. 13, 1875. 

All along our leisurely survey we have noticed the constant 
improvements being added to the sidewalks, streets and street 
crossings, and by means of new plank, fine blocks of stone, even- 
ness and broad extent to the streets. We might go further and 
look further, but time and space forbid. 

Our object was, dear reader, to introduce to you a correct 
hiea of the city and its growing character, which ;^'e iiope we have 
done. We must not forget to say, however, that the Pecan Grove 
is a beautiful, shady, grassy retreat, with seats, tables, music and 
speakers' stand. It is much used by school and other parties for 
holding picnics, and for celebrations. The custom of each school 
at the close of the spring term is to march "with plume? and ban- 
ners gay," 'led by a complete band of music, through the principal 
streets, then out to the shady grove, where, enlivened with music, 
literary and terpsichorean exercises, amidst fun, flowers and feast- 
ing, to spend the most of the day. it is named for the fine old pecan 
trees growing within.^ Sometimes other teachers charter a 
steamer, and take the whole school and its friends far up or down 
the Mississippi ; land upon its oanks, and spread the snow white 
'table linen on the grass beneath the trees, remain till evening, 



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and return. Of those river trips, the naoonlight excursion, with 
a band of music, and your best friends for company, is a favorite 
at this season of the year. 

TUE SURROUNDINGS OF EAST ST. LOUIS 

Are of the deepest interest. These places as objects for drives or 
journeys are almost numberless. Beside St. Louis, full of splen- 
dor^ we will mention a few: Commencing with Kaskaskia on the 
south, some sixty miles distant; we remember its history as older 
than Philadelphia. Its founding unknown, in 1(375, when visited 
l)y Marquette, it had been for generations the chief village of the 
Kaskaskia Indians. It remained for years the chief town of the 
west. It V7as headquarters successively of the French, the Eng- 
lish, and the Americans. There is old Fort G-agc, built upon sci- 
entitle principle*^. There Gen. LaFaj'ette visited his friend, Gen. 
Edgar, on the 29th of April, 1825. The glad people spread their 
c:ir])ets lor him to walk on from the Kaskaskia landirg to the 
door of Gen. Edgar. The remains of the old houtsc are not j'et 
gone. This was the first capital of Illinois. 

Nearer we remember Cahokia, an old French village. Here 
Pontiac, the great Indian Chief, was killed, and the High (lourt • 
of Sessions of Northern Illinois was held. A few miles below 
East Si. Louis, and now out in the river, was the site of Fort Char- 
tres. This was a beautiful specimen of military skill. The walls 
were white, turreted, bastioned, and pierced with port holes. Its 
shape toward the river was circular, like the outer edge of a ladies' 
fan. In it resided with his soldiers, Gen. St. Ange de Bellcrive, 
last French Governor of Illinois, and first Governor of Missouri. 

Not far from the cit}'' is Monksmouud, an elevated piece of 
land, where theie was a monastery, wherein lived some forty 
monks at the beginning of this centurj'. The}- allowed no woman 
to enter their precincts. Col. Jarrot relates that when a boj', his 
father, Nicholas Jarrot, one of the wealthiest merchants of the 
west in early times, visited them on business. He took his son 
and w'.ie along for the enjoyment of the ride. The monks refused 
her admittance, therefore she waited in the buggy till the busines.-^ 
was concluded. 

A tew miles from East St. Louis is the Cantine, a French 
hamlet, around which cluster a world of interesting recollections. 

HIGIIGIIADE BUILDING — ABOVE THE FLOOD OF 1844. 

An event wtiich marks a new era in the growth and prosper- 
ity of this city, took place at 10 o'clock, on September lOth, 1875. 
This wtis the laying of the corner stone, with a])pro])riate cere- 
monies, of the new three-story brick erected for a bank and office 
building, by Mr. Louis Weiss, on the corner of Fourth street and 
Broadway. It was viewed as a gala occasion by a majority of 
the cit'zens. C^uite a number of St. Louisians participated. 



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Hon. John Nieme?, the contractor and builder, was master of 
ceremonies. There were present, amonor o\ here, Hon. S. S. Hake, 
Mayor; Ex-Mayor John B.Bowman, and other dignitaries, beside 
a number of gentlemen representing the press of both cities, and 
Mr. Martin Zike's Silver Cornet Band. 

As is the custom upon the erection of important structures, in 
this corner stone were deposited articles of interest to future gen- 
erations; when the envious tooth of time shall have destroyed that 
which the hands ot men have builded. These articles were a 
package deposited in a glass jar by His Honor Mayor Hake, con- 
taining copies of all the important documents and records per- 
taining to the cit}-; among them were a copy of the city charter, 
of the high grade ordinance, a list of the city officers list ot the 
standing committees of the city council, a copy each of the first 
and last report of the Library and Reading Eoom. This jar was 
hermatically sealed by Hon. John Niemes, who deposite' some 
coin. Two watches were deposited by Messrs. Gu'nin and Wuille, 
a silver badge by Dr. Winton, and a cigar by Mr. Epstein. 

The stone was laid by His Honor Mayor Hake and Hon.John 
Niemes. The National Banner was flung to the breeze, while the 
banii gave forth music in keeping with the time. 

When the crowd ha'J been regaled with music, His Honor the 
Mayt)r made an addre-^s, which was to the poiniand well received. 
J'^x-Mayor Hon. John B. Bowman was then introduced by the 
Mayor, and followed in a forcible speech, of which the annexed 
is nearly a complete report, taken at the time by Mf. H. D. 
O'Brien, of the "Press:" 

EX-MAYOR bowman's ADDRESS. 

"Fellow Citizens : — But for this occasion I would not be pres- 
ent, as I am sick, and have just arisen from my bed in order to be 
■hero. 

"We are present to celebrate the laj-ing of the corner stone of 
the fiist building which is to be built on the grade of 18-t-l. 
Mayor Hake has not said all. Under this corner stone has been 
buried the East St. Louis of the past, and on it will be built the 
ciij' of the future. Under the old system the resources of East 
St. Louis could not be properly developed. Tjong before Tom 
Bei.ton pointed to the west and said, "Westward the star of em- 
pire takes Its way," the people came to this point and located 
here in preference to St. Louis. At ihat time the merchants ot 
that citv purchased at Cahokia their wares and merchandise, but 
on account of the low foundation on which the town rested, and 
from the calamities resulting from high water, its progress was 
prevented. I say, and defy the future to contradict my statement, 
that here we are located on the banks of the Mississippi river, 
where the soil is fertile and abounds in coal, without which civil- 
ization would be a dead body. Coal molds the iron, without 
which nd civilizatio/i can exist. E.ist St. Louis, with this advan- 



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lage, is to be Ihc Eirraingham of America. Without machinery, 
we would go without the clothes upon our backs. AYhen manu- 
factories ai'c numerous labor will flourish and will be plenty when 
our imildings are built upon the foundation of high grade, which 
is the only thing will save East St. Louis and the American Bot- 
tom. Now there is a bright future before us of which we cannot 
reasonabi}' form a proper conception. This building inaugurates 
u new era in the history ot East St. Louis. AYe will no longer 
have to beg for money on account of insecurity, but can secure it 
at low rates of interest. We can have no credit w^ith low grade, 
and we must have credit, as business cannot flourish without it. 
There are millions of dollars locked in the vaults of the country 
to-day ready to loan on proper security, which we can get if the 
y»roper course is pursued. We cannot have credit abroad unless 
we carr}^ out the high grade project — this will bring it; nothing 
else will. 

"It docs me double pleasure to bo with j'ou fellow citizens 
upon this occasion, for the reason that beneath tliis stone is 
deposited the poll lists which show conclusively that the people 
are no longer to be humbusrged by those who have no intertst in 
the welfare of the city. Injunction or no injunction, East St. 
Louis must be built up. The returns of the polls are deposited 
beneath this corner stone. Every stone which shall be laid in the 
walls of this building will be a monument to the enterprise of those 
who advocated and defended the high grade movement." 

" Tracts were distributed to the peoj)le and they were advised 
by one of the papers of this city to throw high graders out of the 
windows. But in spite of their machinations we have triumphed. 
The people of East St. Louis have decided to march forward, and 
you are here to celebrate the laying of the corner stone of tho 
first builuing to be erected on the high grade basis. It was un- 
popular to speak of this at onetime, and it is a gratification to 
come here in the broad light of day and speak m}'' sentiments." 

" Fellow citizens, I say in conclusion, this is the corner stone 
of the future East St. Louis, just as dismal as has been the past 
just so bright will be its future. No longer will our laboring 
men go abroad to look for work, but for fifty years to come they 
will rind plenty to do here in this city. I cannot close my 
remarks without referring to the gentleman who has undertaken 
this work, Mr. Louis Weiss, lie was opposed to high grade, but 
eyentuall}' became convinced that the old ideas which he had so 
long entertained were wrong, and he repudiated them. When 
all the other buildings which are to be built in the future shall 
have been erected then he will be more honored and compliment- 
ed than now. lie is the pioneer, the first man to risk his money 
to back his faith in this new enterprise. I propose three cheers 
for Mr. Louis Weiss." 

The Ex-Mayor's speech was loudly applauded during its 
delivery, and be received three cheers and a tiger at its close. 

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The following able paper from Dr. Wade was then read : 

Cor. Collinsville and Illinois Ave,, ) 
East St. Louis, Sept. 10, 9 a. m. j 
To Messrs. Louis Wiess, J. Niemes, Lorenzen, Gohn and Marton : 

Gentlemen: Owing to unforeseen sickness and professional 
duties that must be attended to, lam deprived of the pleasure of 
being with you this morning at 10 a. ra. and participating in your 
ceremonies and assisting in laying the corner stone of the first 
building to be erected under the high grade law. 

Nothing is more gratifying than to know it will be an impor- 
tant and an enjoyable event, and in the meantime conduce much 
towards the establishment of an unquestionably needed improve- 
ment — a high grade. I don't wonder at the pleasure it gave the 
architect, the builder, the worthy mechanics and all who are 
interested in the future prosperity and health of East St. Louis, 
to be identified among those present on this important occasion. 
The people of East St. Louis are to be congratulated that 
this day ushers in a great and much-needed reform; that at last, 
after years of agitation, by the fiat of an energetic people it has 
been decided that a high grade shill be the rule, and m the 
erection of all new buildings of importance in future, they are 
ikely to conform to this rule. 

The great Father of Waters, on whose ample bosom the com- 
merce of the Western world is destined to float — probably 
through all future time — may have enforced this great change 
and improvement, for the securitj^ and future prosperity of this city. 
The emphatic voice of this majestic and noble river has been 
heard, and thus man, in obedience to the laws of nature, acls for 
his own and highest interests. 

That this step in our municipal affiairs will attract to this 
city business, wealth, and a great increase in population, who 
can doubt. It finally and forever settles the most important 
question that has ever agitated the minds of our people. 

This system of high grade as now established, will contribute 
more to the general health oi this cit}", than any public improve- 
ment of which we can conceive. Of course a necessary and 
modern sewerage will be constructed with and in accordance 
with the grade. 

Thy, then, should not the march of East St. Louis be upwards 
and onwards ? 

The magnificent bridge which spans the great river and con- 
nects the Atlantic and Pacific with iron bands, affords the same 
facilities to East St. Louis as it does to the city on the other side. 
The enterprise, which will ever mark this as the first build- 
ing to be erected upon a high and new grade system, deserves 
especial notice. 

I understand the building will be used by the meritorious 
institution the East St. Louis Workingraon's bank, and I have no 



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doubt it will be conducted on those high principles corresponding 
with the high grade this day inaugurated. 

Let the names of these parties who are to erect and complete 
this structure also be remembered. 

Mr. Louis Wiess, the owner, Mr. J. Niemes, builder, Mr. 
Lorenzcn, the architect, Mr. Gr. Gohn, carpenter and Mr. Morton, 
stone cutter, will go on and complete it upon this interesting 
foundation and corner stone, and in future we can with much 
satisfaction and pride point to the example and ask that other 
good people go and do likewise. " So moie it be." 

Eespectfully, 

J. W. Wade. 

The reading of the communication was received Avith cheers 
from the hundreds of participants. After the ceremony was 
finished a repast was set on the sidewalk by Mr. John Ehrhard, 
which was relished by all who partook of it. A ^'high grade" 
loaf of brown bread four and a-half feet long and weighing over 
eleven pounds, and baked by Mr. Louis Weiss, was one of the 
attractive features of the lunch-table. 

The whole affaiv was well planned and executed. The Star 
Cornet Band lent their enlivening strains during the banquet, 
and the very best feeling prevailed. 

Twenty-three years ago the laj'ing of the corner stone of the 
0. & M. llailway, by Mayor Luther M. Kennett, of St. Louis, 
when we were Mayorless, marked the beginning of an era of 
great progress in population and prosperity assured by increased 
traffic brought by the railroads. The laying of the high grade 
corner stone this year, by Mayor Hake, of the city of East f^t. 
Louis, marks an era, and a grade in which, and on which East St. 
Louis as a manufacturing city of the West, will steadily advance 
to the very front rank in manufactures, wealth and prosperity. 

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APPENDIX. 



[No. 250.] 

AN OEDINANCE to establish a peimanent o^rade for the highways of the 

city. 

£e it ordained by the City Council of the City of East St. Loins .• 

Section 1. The o-i-ade ot all streets, highways and avenues shall be 
eight feet above the city directrix, at street intersections, with a sufficient 
elevation in the center of blocks to give a fall of twelye inches in a hundred 
leet ; and the grade of alleys shall be made to conform to the grade of streets, 
and shall have the same fall ; provided, that in all cases Avheie the present 
surlace ot a street, highway, avenue or alley, or part of the same, is above 
the grade hereby establi.<hed, this ordinance shall not apply. 

ISec 2. No part of the filling of streets, to grade, shall at any time be- 
come the subject of any special assessment or extra taxatioii, but the lilhng 
up to grade shall be proceeded with only so last as the ordinary revenue, and 
the constitutionally limited credit of the city will permit; and' that all pres- 
ent available credit of the city, after deducting the city's present liabilities, 
payable therefrom, be set apart as a fund with which to defray the expenses 
of the commencement of such fillino', under future orders of the Council. 

Sec. 3. All ordinances and resolutions in conflict herewith are hereby 
repealed, and this ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage and 
promulgation. 

Passed December 3, 1874. 



: SEAL. : "WILLIAM O'NEILL. 

i : City Clerk. 

Approved Decembers, 1874. 

JOHN B. BOWMAN, Mayor. 

THE m'cARTY tract. 

This is a tract of land, containing 400 acres, Vv^hich was evened 
by an English officer who became possessed of it in 1765 — two 
5'ears alter the peace of Paris, in 1763, when France ceded 
the country to England. In 1765 Capt. Stirling, of the Eoyal 
Highlanders, arrived at Fort Cbartres and took posseseion^of 
Illinois for George III. The officer, Richard McCarty, was doubt- 
less of Stirling's command. He left here tor Canada in 1787, 
where he left heirs to this land. It once had a mill upon it. It 
is bounded by Tenth street, St. Clair avenue, Illinois avenue and 
Stock Yard avenue. 

In 1811 the earthquake caused a crack in the wall of the family 
mansion of Nicholas Jarrot, in the village of Cabokia. This 
house was then the only brick house in Illinois. It is now occu- 



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pied by the dauL^htcr of Nicholas Jarrot, Mrs. Ilorlense Brackctt. 
The opening in the wall is still to be seen. 

Among the prominent men here in 1823 were Clayton Tiffin 
and Seth (Jonverso, of Connecticut. 

The western beginning of the O. & M. took place on lots 1, 
2 and 3 Block 28, First ward, near the ruins of the Western Hotel, 
corner Main and Broadway. The road was laid on other land, 
but the place where the formal opening ceremonies took place is 
yet marked b}' a ridge of earth on the above lots. Prof. O. M. 
Mitchell was one of the speakers. 

THE WESTERN HOTEL, 

With all modern improvements, was erected near the junction 
of tho St. Clair county turnpike with Main street. It was erected 
by Henry Brundy, and opened in 1S51. It was a three-story 
brick, 80x120 feet. It had stores below, and above there were 
accommodations for 200 guests. A. Wettig bought it under a 
deed of tr-ist in 1861. In that year it burned down. 

Ames' pork house also burned, and a barrel factory, which had 
run but a short time. These were situated near the Bjllevillo 
Round House. 

EAST ST. LOUIS CASINO 

Is a German Singing Society, whose objects are tho social 
enjoj'ment and conviviality of its members, by means of singing, 
reading and feasting. Originating in 1873 with seven members, 
it now has fiftj-six. Its originators were Henr\' W')lter8,Adoli)he 
Finke, John Seibert, Peter Schneider, Michael Walter, Gr. H. 
Trebbe and W. Abt. Casino is said to be a German word, mean- 
ing conviviality. It designates an old Gernian custom. They 
sing German songs; have a flag, piano and singing book. They 
have active, passive and honorary members, and periodical 
festivals. 

The period between 1837 and 1844 was one of great prosper- 
ity in the town of Illinois. Many enterprising men during that 
time came in, and lent their efforts toward its growth. Promi- 
nent among these were Marion Cole, ancestor of Mayor Cole, of 
St. Louis. 

The great flood of 1844 then discouraged enterprise for sev- 
eral years. There was then no adequate protection from high 
water. The town languished till 1852 when the O. & M. road 
was begun. During that time the desperadoes gave law abiding 
citizens much trouble. Killing became a common occurrence. 
Know-Nothingism and opposition thereto caused many bloody 
deeds. 

PENSONEAU's MILL. 

Ettienne Pensoneau owned a mill which was built in 1810 or 
1812. Its location was a short distance south of Railroad street 



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HISTORY OF 



The mill was I'un by oxen and discontinued in 1816 or 1818. Tfcie 
time of ihe existence of the mill on the McCarty tract is not cer- 
tainly known. In 1803, however, a record was made and dated 
which contains the words, "Bounded by the mill race." The 
mill was located near where the East St. Louis and Carondelet 
railway crosses Cahokia creek. 

TORNAPO or 1871. 

This proved very destructive of life and property in East St. 
Louis. It occurred in the afternoon of Wednesday, March 8, 
187L li seemed to be a terrific whirlwind. The Eads Bridge 
was then in an unfinished state. The apparatus being used in the 
construction of the east pier was destroyed. One bridge work- 
man was killed and eight or ten wounded. Superintendent Mc- 
Comas narrowly escaped, unhurt. Large buildings were demol- 
ished, trains of cars thrown from the track, and freight depots 
were destroyed. Steamers and barges lying in the harbor were 
torn from their moorings and sent adrift, badly damaged by the 
ravages of the storm. In the general destruction of buildings the 
lives of some twenty men were lost, while many others were 
badlv wounded and others slightly. The rain fell in torrents, 
while the wind did its fearful wreck. At noon clouds began to 
gather, at 2 rain began to fall and the wind to blow. Between 3 
and 4 o'clock — 8 minutes to 4 St. Louis time, 3:20 Chicago — the 
storm was at its height and destruction at hand. The destruction 
was all done in an incredibly short time, from twenty to thirty 
seconds. The gram elevator was unroofed, the smoke stacks of 
the Mollie Able were blown away, the ferry boats ceased running, 
a thirty ton engine was lifted and hurled from the track, the Wai- 
ter B. Dance's chimneys were toppled overboard and the boat 
damaged, the William J. Jones parted her lines, the bridge boat 
Allen went down the river out of sight, also the Jiubicon, several 
barges went adrift, ferry boat America's chimneys and upper 
works blew down, and her pilot, Kichard Johnson, badly in- 
jured, three teamsters injured, New Orleans Packet Companj^'s 
wharf boat parted lines. The storm first struck the shore at the 
Pittsburg coal dump, opposite Chouteau avenue. A number of 
frame houses near the coal dyke were torn to pieces ; also, three 
coal and two new franie houses and a ticket office, owned by Wm. 
Eeademeyer, and another own^d by Mr. Scamp. Ferry boat Ed- 
wardsville was run aground, her smoke stacks blown down, and 
her pilot house torn off. Her pilot, Wm. Stark, was injured j his 
wife was with him, escaping unhurt. Tugboat Hewelt had her 
upper works swept off the deck. Capt. Montgomery had hi.s head 
cut with flying timbers. Mr. J. T. Monical had his hand badly 
mashed, Indianapolis Railroad depot was destroj-ed. A driver 
from the St. Louis transfer company had his leg broken. Bridge 
derrick boat, with its massive hoisting apparatus, was torn to 
pieces. Timbers a foot in diameter were broken by the storm. 



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James Halpin, boiler maker, was killed. James Clark, said to be 
the best workman in the employ of the company, was horriblj- 
manirled. C W. Smith was injured. John Fuma cut on the arm. 

Antome was cut on the head. John Summeis cut on tlie 

band. David Eobinson bruised and cut on the head. Edward 
Ganiion knocked senseless. The Vandalia Railroad depot was 
destro3'ed, with the freight house, a building eight hundred feet 
long. F. W. Strauthren was here injured in the breast and hand. 
Vandalia water tank was destro^'ed. Ram Vindicator was beached 
and ruined. Sidewalks were torn up. Telegraph poles were 
blown down. Hon. J. B. Lovingston's planing mill, being five 
buildings and machinery, was destroyed. Patrick Conwa^-'s 
house was blown down and his wife's legs crushed under a falling 
ti'ee ; Conway himself was bruised. One or two women and an 
infant were seriously if not fatally hurt. Trees were snapjted off 
like l>ipe siems. Small houses, owned by Wiggins Ferry Com- 
])an3-, were desiroj-ed ; a Mrs. Brown, in one, escaped unhurt ; 
Daniel Collins in another was fatally crushed. Clerk John Vogle 
fatally crushed by a falling tree. John MtGarrigan cut in the 
head. Ferr}' boat C larles MuUikin was driven'asnoro and lost a 
smoke stack. Southeastern railway buildings and car houses 
were wrecked. Assistant Suppl}^ Agent John Bodkin O'Neil was 
killed outright 5 body recovered. John O'Connell, the Supply 
Agent, said to have been killed. James Claiborne was hurt on 
the head and arm. Phillip Schubkegl, of Mascoutah, was cut on 
the face in the car which he had just entered. Charles Shafner's 
house and saloon were razed and his three children slightly hurt. 
Frank Donnigan and family were injured by their falling house ; 
she was hurt fatally. Lawrence McGK-nn cut under the eye. Mrs. 
Smith seriously hurt. II. Bncroft's house blown down ; himself 
and wile severely injured. Capt. Ilaynes and five or six others 
were hurt in Conway's house. Dan. Powell was cut on head and 
arms by O. & M. smith shop falling on him. Palace cars were 
blown from ihe track. Mrs, Powell and Mrs. Shields were both 
f^lightly hurt. A little baby in the arms of the latter was bruised 
almost to death by the falling of Mrs. Williamson's house. 



CHICAGO DEPOT. 

Two freight and one car house were destroj'cdatthe Chicago 
depot. Thomas Drum, omnibus driver, was killed. Isaac Evans, 
engineer, with his engine, was buried under the round house. 
The debris took fire and burned him to death. In the falling 
freight houses, Louis Perrinouth was injured. Geo. Shoene and 
Martin Mechim were badU' bruised. JSi . B. Sheridan was hurl on 
the head and back. J. II. Iteines had a shoulder dislocated. 
Jacob Parinett had an arm broken. Edward Conners cut on the 
head. 



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HISTOKY OF 



LOSS AT 0. & M. DEPOT. 



Three freight sheds, a tank bouse, a passenger car house, and 
eleven cars thrown from the track and badly crushed. Aaron 
Slannis, of Adams' express, was cut about ihe head. Daniel 
Haines, engineer, scalp cut. Cliaf. Ilayman, fireman, bruised and 
cut in head. Geo. Ilassct badlj^ bruised. Harry Starkman hurt. 
T- Donahue and Wm. DeWitt, right shoulders dislocated. AVnu 
Hill, head cut by falling shop. Peter Phlihon, car mashed. Lucy 
Glass, side and shoulder hurt. Barbara Sincloft, head and lace 
cut. Sarah liichardson, right shoulder dislocated. Caiharine 
Eichardson and Jane Jones injureJ slightly by falling house. 
Ellen Douth injured by falling limbers. T. Howard, wife and 
children, Bridget Nolan, killed. John Papen cut on hand. John 
Bunco injured. Wm. Straub's wife injured. Jasper Wick and 
Michael Brown injured. George Harcup and August Harran 
were bruised. D. Hannifan injured. Besides these were hurt : 
George Belkman, Milton McFurlan, John Gisly, W. T. Kincher> 
AV. McGlynn, Barney McKeown, Charles Parry and T. Hamilion. 
Blown from 'bus : Peter Plynn, John M. Dillon, Marcus Miiiei';, 
J. Marks. 

A MAN WAS BLOWN FIFTY FEET. 

His name was George W. Hassett, driver of an express. 
The track of the tornado was from a hundred to two hundred 
feet Vv^ide. 

A man's hair turned white. 

Incidents of the tornado witnessed and known by Capt. E. 
Lee Barrow man, at that time engaged in business in the Chicago 
and Alton R'y Depot : 

"I was in the depot when the storm burst upon it. There 
were ten or twelve ladies, and one gentleman, escort of two la- 
dies. I shut the windows and ran to shut the door. The gentle- 
man in trying to run out was caught by me between the door 
and wall, his body partly out. "Come away,' said I, but as he 
would not I pressed it hard shut lo prevent the wind from enter- 
ing the depot. Next day he came in, sayings 'Good morning; do 
you know me i" 'No.' 'I was the man whom you caught in the 
door yester('ay, and if you had given me all the world for it I 
could not have moved inside that door. I saw trees, houses, 
cars, and everything in sight on the face of the earth in the act 
of destruction. I actually thought the end of the world had come. 
Do you see my hair changed to gray ; it was caused by that hor- 
rible sight. I have been a railroad man, and was through the 
terrific scenes of the late war, but I never knew fear till that 
dreadful moment."' 

A MAN burned TO DEATH. 

"An engineer had eaten dinner with me that day^, who was 



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.nt the timo repairini; hia engine at the Chicago round house. His 
liand was caught in the failing timber;?, lie called to another to 
cut it off. The man ran for an ax. Eoturning, the flames pre- 
vented him, and ho heard the d^'ing shriek of the engineer con- 
suming by tire. All that remained ot him was a roasted lump. 

PART OF THE MOLLIE ABLE FORTY MILES AWAY. 

"A man living on the Jacksonville branch of the Chicago & 
Alton Eailivay said to me a day or two after that he saw in iho 
air on the day of the tornado an object like a man's hat. AYhen 
it fell he found it was a piece of tarred rooting. Another piece 
fell near it — both in his field — like a small door panel. I told 
him to bring them in, which he did. They proved, on compari- 
son, to be parts of the wrecked steamer Mollie Able. 

"An iron life boat of the JMollie Able was carried six hundred 
feet and bent double around a tree on the li-land. 

''The celebrated Pat. Conwa}' kept cool and safe in an ice 
box during the waste of life and propert}^ outside. His house 
was totally demolished, and his wife's leg was broken. 

iMR. AVM. E. PUTNAM, 

A descendant of Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame, re- 
sides in the Third ward, on Third and Mulligan streets. He has 
in his possession the sword ot his illustrious ancestor, a flag that 
■was his, and one of three original copies of the Declaration ot 
Independence. These relics are deposited for safe keeping in a 
vault in St. Louis. They will be sent on to the Centennial Expo- 
sition at Philadelphia, for exhibition, in 1876. 

MISSOURI CAR AND FOUNDRY WORKS. 

It is a significant fact that the manufacturers of St. Louis are 
recoiiiiiziny: the advantai^es afforded here for various lines of 
manufacture. Prominent in addition to those already mentioned 
elsewhere is the firm known as the St. Louis Car and Foundry 
Company. In St. Tiouis they had their Foundry at the corner of 
Bates and Main streets, in the northern part of the city, and their 
car shops in the southern part. The capacity of their works, 
with a force of four hundred men, was to make fifteen freight cars 
per da}". Finding their business, as located apart, expensive and 
inconvenient, they are concentrating it more near, in East St. 
Louis, where they have everj' advantage which they require. 
They preferred this cour.se (leasing ground and buildings here) to 
erecting works on their own land in the western ]iart of St. Louis. 
The following extrjict from ''The Future Groat City" shows the 
extent of their works : 



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HISTORY 



MISSOURI CAR AND FOUNDRY COMrANY, 



Among the most prominent of St. Louis, recent "establish- 
ment8, i.s the Missouri Car and Foundry Company, This eslab- 
lisbment is only three years old, and yet in growth and character 
is one of the largest manufacturing companies in the city. It has 
a paid-up capital stock ot $300,000. Tlie works are divided into 
two departments. The car department is 1401 North Main street, 
■where are situated the machine, blacksmith, wood working, 
finishing and painting shops. This department covers about fi^e 
acres. The foundry department covers Lami and DeCalb streets, 
and consists of two brick buildings of 70 by 150 feet. In one is 
melted twenty tons of Missouri pig-iron per day,^nd this is made 
into railroad castings. In the other building thirty tons are 
melted per day, for car wheels. The first year the company built 
eight hundred cars; the second year two thousand, at>d the third 
year three thousand. The establishment has a capacity for turn- 
ing out fifteen freight cars per day, and intend shortly to build 
passenger coaches. It employs five tiundred men, and pays out 
over $30,000 per month in wages. It carries a large stock of 
■white oak, and pine lumber. The oak is obtained principally 
from Illinois, and the white pine from Wisconsin 3 jellow pine 
from Missouri, and long-leaf pine from Georgia and Louisana. 
The establishment consumes 30,000 feet of lumber per day, bar 
iron twelve tons, and pig-iron fitly tons per day. 

Great care is taken to do the best quality of work. 
By means of a combination ol the best ear-wheel iron to be 
obtained, metal is gathered in from Maryland, Alabama, Ken- 
lucky, Ohio and Missouri ; which, together with the purchase, 
at large expense, of the sole right 10 the use of Cochran's Patenc 
Annealing Process lor car wheels, this company claim to bo pro- 
ducing car wheels which cannot be excelled for strength, chill 
and wearing qualities. 

Their product for the past twelve months has been 25,000 car 
wheels. 

They melt daily into railroad castings twenty tons of Missouri 
pig-iron, mostly from the Carondelet furnaces. They also have 
an extensive brass foundry, where they manufacture car, locomo- 
tive and machine boxes, producing over 1,000 pounds per day. 

During the past twelve months the Company have furnished 
cars to railroads in all directions. The following were a lew: N. 
O., J. & G. Northern; St. L. & I. M. K. E, ; Cairo & Fuiton; Ar- 
kansas Central; A. &P.; I., B. & \V. ; Great Wei'n Desp. Co.; 
C. C. C. &I.; C. D. & v.; Iowa Central; A. S. & Santa Fe ; Mid- 
land Pacific; 111. &. Si. Louis; etc., etc. 

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY : 

lion. Warren Currier, President; John S. Newberry, Vice 
President; James McMillan, Secretary; Wm. McMillan, Treasurer 
and General Manager. 



EAST ST. LOUIS lOQ 

canfield's EEFRIGERATOR. 

In Au^^ust, 1875, Mr. Canfield shippedacar load of fresh beef, 
ill his refrigerator, to Now York Cit}'. It arrived in due time, in 
a perfect state of preservation, and was profitably disposed of in 
that market. He at once ordered made a whole train of refrige- 
rator cars, in which bo designs shipping beef to the eastern mar- 
keta. The beef will be dressed at Messrs. Eicbardson's abattoir. 
East St. Louis. This enterprise bids lair to revolutionize the mode 
of beef shipmeits. 

MASONIC — LODGE NO. 504 A. F. AND A. M. 

East St. Louis Lodge (under dispensation) held its first meet- 
ing, February 22, A. D., 1866. The officers then wore Anson 
Gustin, Worshiptul Master; H. C. Pocoke, Senior Warden ; Kieh- 
ard Cox, Junior Warden ; J. B. Sikking, Treasurer; E. W. Wider, 
Secretar}' ; Patrick Vaughan, Senior Deacon ; Louis A. Delorme, 
Junior Deacon ; Madison H. Cairns, Tj'ler. 

Chartered, and officers installed under charter, December 20, 
1866. Present number of members, 66. Present officers, A. Gus- 
tin, W. M. ; Christian Eohm, S. W. ; Wm. Amos, J. W. ; W. G- 
Kase, Treasurer; E. C. Newkirk, Secretary; Geo. L. Ivclb, S. 
D.; Geo. T. Phillips, J. D. ; Wm. Kirby, Tyler. 

The Lodge meets in Schaub's block on Broadway, in a 
eplcndidh" furnised hall, and is prospering. 

TURNVEREIN. 

This was the first German society formed in East St. Louis. 
It started under favorable auspices, havii^g as expressed by 
one of its originators a " splendid send-off." 

It was organized in 1865. The Turn Hall was finished in 
1866. It had all the apparatus of a first-class German Gymna- 
sium, including the trapeze, suspended rings, horses, springs, 
poles, climbing poles and cushions. The first president was John 
Steinert. It flourished for several years and then languished. 

The grounds situated on the corner of Ninth street and St. 
Louis avenue. The hall and the furniture cost the society seven 
thousand dollars. A singing society was connected. The hall 
burned to the ground on Sunday night, September 26, 1875. 

For the officers of the present Turnverein, which meets at 
Heim's Garden every Mondaj^ and Friday evenings, the reader 
is re erred to the society directory prefixed. 

EAST ST. LOUIS SAENGERBUND. 

"Was Organized on the 23rd of Afarch, 1872, with twenty-eight 
members. The first president was Hon. E. J. Eggmann, who 



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HISTORY OP 



held the oflSce eio;bteen months. The present pre&ident 13 Mr. 
Fred Schafiait. It now has seventy-tive members, who own a 
splendid flag and a good piano as an accompaniment while sing- 
ing. 

EAST ST. LOUIS FREUBUND LODGE, NO. 19. 

The objects of this Lodge are expressed in benevolence to 
its members. It was organized on the 21st of March, 1874, by 
the charter members, Henry Jasper, Henry Thoene, Geo. Thoene, 
August Arnold, Henry Ehrhardt, William Wiesaian and E. J. 
Eggmann. It now has twenty-eight charter members. The 
Lodge was chartered on the 20Lh of June, 1875, by the Grand 
Lodge of Illinois. 

DOUGLAS SCHOOL. 

The officers of Douglas School— Prof. P. M. Sullivan, Princi- 
pal ; Assistants — Miss Ella Smith, Mr. Francis McDermott, Miss 
Mary Brennan. 

MADE LAND. 

As is well known that land in cities which is made by art 
becomes thereby as valuable, if not more so than other lands. 
This will be the case here as in other cities. It is gratifying to 
see the movements already being made in this direction. 

Since this book was begun, not far from two hundred thous- 
and cubic yards of land has been made by the St. Louis and 
Southern Eailway Company; and this too in the old channel of 
the river, referred to as likely to become the most valuable part 
of the city. The terminus of this road is being thus improved 
for freight purposes. A large freight house, having already' been 
built near the Eads' Bridge. They are continuing the tilling. 
The contract was let to Messrs. Gibbons and Keary. The terms 
are less than thirty cents per yard. The Messrs. Keary, are old 
time Mississippi Levee contractors. They thoroughly understand 
the business of filling and can do it most cheaply, having been 
engaged at it for twenty-five years. They have offices at New 
Orleans, Vicksburg and 1124 Monroe street St. Louis. Having 
large forces of men at those points, with outfits for one thousand. 
When needed to complete a contract in a short time, they can 
readily combine their force at one place. 

These brothers, whose mames are Martin, Michael and Patrick 
Keary, are prepared to take contracts for filling any where in the 
city. 

FIRES OF 1872. 

These destructiv^e fires destroyed a row of frame stores, 
dwellings and rear buildings, on Broadway, extending from the 
corner of Third street £.nd Broadway to the St. John building, 



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141 



nlso the brick mill on Broadway near Cahokia bridge, and the 
toll-gato on the St. Clair County turnpike. The existence of 
this toli-gi\te on one of our busiest thoroughfares, has caused, 
])orhiips as much litigation between its proprietors and the 
authorities of East St. Louis as any other ditference. 

When the dj'ke was finished by St. Louis, the chief considera- 
tion was that It should as a highway be kept forever free to 
travelers. Yet, by subsequent legislation, the St. Clair Turnpike 
C'ompany continue to collect toll. 



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HISTORY OF 



E^ST ST. LOUIS, ILL. 



FACULTY. 

S. F. Holt, A. M., President. 

Principal Commercial Department. 

Ferdinand Harrsen, German Language and Literature. 

R. A. Typon, Reading and Elocution. 

Mrs. C. C. AYebb, Preceptress. 

Mrs. O. A. C. Holt, Music and Drawing. 



CALENDAR 1875-6. 

Auiumn Term begins September 13ih. 
AVinter " " December 6th. 

Spring " " March Uth. 

Commencement, June 3d. 



Recess one week during the holidays. Vacation one week at 
the close of the AYinter term. Students are received at any time, 
but are advised to commence at the beginning or middle of each 
term. 

TUITION. 
Nursery Class, per term of 12 weeks, $ 4 00. 
Primary, '<■ " 6 00. 

Common English "' " 8 00. 

Higher English " " . 10 00. 

Languages " '' 12 00. 

A Deduction of One Dollar will be made on each Term Bill Paid 

in Advance. 

EXTRAS. 

Drawing, $6 00. 

Oil Painting, $12 00. 

Music, Piano or Organ, $12 00. 

Use of Instrument for Practice, $3 00. 

COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. 
Penmanship, per term, $10 00. 
Commercial Course, ^25 00. 
Life Scholarship, S50 00. 

All bills must be paid before the middle of the term. For 
further information, address the President, East St. Louis, HI. 



EAST ST. LOUIS -j^^l^ 

EAST ST. LOtriS SEMIITAEY, 

RAILROAD STREET BET. MAIN^ AND SECOND. 

Five Lines of Study— Primary, Preparatory, Academic and Classical, with a 
Musical Department and Instruction in Languafjes. 

TERMS: 

PER TERM. 

Primary Department, First Year $ 5 00 

Primary r>epartment. Second Year 6 00 

Preparatory Department, Junior, First Year ; 7 00 

Preparatorj'^ Department. Senior. Second Year 8 00 

Academic Depaitinent, Junior, First Year 9 00 

Academic Department, Middle, Second Year 10 00 

Aciulemic Department, Scior, Third Year 11 00 

Collegiate, Classicalor Scientitic 12 00 

No extra charsre for Penmanship, Drawing, Yocal Music, Calisthenics 
or the Lantfuages, if taken in the regular course. 

MUSIC: 

Tuition Per Quarter $12 00 to $15 00 

Use of Piano 2 00 to 3 00 

The Courses of Study in all Department? of the Seminary and Business 
College, the Faculty, Lecturers, Board of Visitors and Board of Examiners, 
will be published in a thirty-two page pamphlet circular, that will appear 
soon. 

The Matriculation of Students will commence on next Monday, the 13th 
day of September. Students can enter at any time. 

J. W. Whittlesey. Supt. 



ST. XjOTJIS 

Grape Sugar and Crlucose "Works 
O. "V^^. Hey er & 33ro. 

Maniafacturers of 

DEFINED GUiPE %U 

J^1<T1D a-LTJOOSE!. 

901 North Fifth Street, - - St. L^iiis, Mo. 

Works, East St.LoiiiSj Ills. 



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EAST ST. LOUIS 

Corner of Broadway and Belleville Turnpike. 

Manufjicturers and dealers in Frames, Sash, Doors, Blinds. Boxes, 

Mouldings, Brackets, Cornices, &c. Scroll Sawing, Turning, 

and other Machine Work done to order at short notice. 

MOULDINGS WOUKED TO ORDER. 

-Work delivered free of charge to any part of the city."®a 




ifj 



EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 

O^ce Sz. Store, 411 S. 4tli st, bet.Spmee Sl Almond, 

ST. LOUIS. 
Flour, Meal, Shipstuff, Bran, &c., always on hand at Store & Mill. 



ACEUTISTS, 

BROADWAY, 

E^ST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 



OSCJ^K F. KUKSSE!. 



Corner Missouri and Collin sville Avenues, 

(Adjoining East St. Louis Bank) 

Keeps constantly in stock a fine assortment of Boolcs and Stationery, Wall 

I'aper, Window Shades, Pictures, Frames, Looking Glasses, Fancy Goods, 

and a great many articles too numerou-' to mention. 



EAST ST. LOUIS . 1^^ 

HEUHY SCHALL, 



DEALKR !N 










NOTIONS, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, AND 

UEAHY-MADE CLO THINGJ 

ALSO 

Merchant Tailoring done at shortest notice. 

Broadway, opposite Post Office, East St. Louis, Ills. 

CHAS. ASSMAm, 

MERCHANT TAILOM. 

Fourth Street, Opposite Center Market, 

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 

AUDHEW WETTIG. 

DEALER IN 

Dry Goods.GrocerieSp Boots Shoes ^Varieties 
EA^ST ST. LOUIS, ILL. 

East St. Louis Basket Works. 

F. E. SMITH, 

MANUFACTURE AND DEALER IN 

BJSKm m WILLOW WJRE, AT WHOLESIILE UNO RETJIL, 

Nursery Chairs, Rocking Chairs, Sewing Flower and Work 
Stands, Linen Hanapers, Market Baskets both covered and open, 
aiid a general assortment of Willow Ware BELOW ST. LOUIS 
PRICES. All kinds of repairing done with neatness and dispatch. 

AVorks two doors north of Presbyterian Chui-ch, Third Ward, 
East St. Louis. 



146 



HISTORY OF , 



• 



"Wholesale "Wines and Lienors, 

Corner CollinsviUe and Missouri Avenues, 
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 



9 

EAST ST. LOUIS BRIDGE APPEOA-CH, 
Ttiis is the neatest little place in the city. 

LEE B. MITCHEL, Proprietor. 

Good Living atLamar Excliaoge 

Proprietor, PAUL LAJJlAR. gg^Wholesaler and Retailer of 

ICE, WOOD AND FEED. 

Also Furnishes Excellent Board at moderate prices. 

MAURICE TISSIEJR, 

Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, 

WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO, 

Cor. Third st. and Christy av. (on the Island), East St. Loaip,l!!s. 

Leonard Lohrer. Adolph H. Boeckelmann. 

LOHRER & BOECKELMANN, 

DEALEES IN 

Groceries, Queeiisware, Wioes, L.iqaoFS, Ac. 

Buy Bones for Cash, and Sell Cement. 

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLS. 
Goods Delivered Free of Chiarge to any part of the City. 



EAST ST. LOUIS. 



147 

HENRY OEBIKE, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

Groceries & Provisions, Produce, Qieens- 
ware, Wines and Liquors, 

Cor. Broadway and Collinsville Avenue, East St. Louis, Ills. 
Goof's delivered free of charge to any part of the city. 

RICHARD ROE, 

DEALER IN 

Groceries, Provisions, Wines, 

AXD LIQUORS. 
The Choicest Goods in my line constantly on hand, 
(^or. Sixth Street and Summit Avenues, EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. * 

Missouri Avenue House, 

Boarding by the Day or "W^eek: 

S®„Term8 Cash.-®« By CHAELES MERKIL. 
N. E. Cor. of Missouri & Collinsville Avenues East St. Louis, Ills. 

LOUIS PARENT, 

BUILDIi\€J CONTRACTOR 

BRICK AND STONE MASON. 
Will Build you anythinpj from a Bake Oven to a Church. 

H. & H. ET1.EIOT, 

Manufacturers of Elliot's Patent 

Railroad Frogs and Crossings, 

AND GENERAL R. R. IRON WORK, 
orks. Cor. Main & Bond sis, & East Si. Louis & Carondolet R. R. 



148 



HISTORY OF 



PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 
DR. O. R. WINTON, 

lYSICIAN & SURGEON. Office-Bi 
way, opposite Brackett's drug store. 



T. C. JENNINGS, M. D., 
Physician and Surgeon, 

(*flicc and Residence on Main street, between 

Broadway and Misisouri avenue, 

East St. Louis 111. 



DR. W. J. SISSON, 

BROADWAY, 

St. Jolm's B-ailding, 

(Opposite Post Office) , 
KAST ST. LOUIS, - - ILLINOIS. 

E. R. DAVIS, 

A ttorney at Law, East St. Louis. 

LUKE H. HITE, 

Attorney at Law. Oflicc in Jackeisch build- 
ing, Missouri .V venue. East St. Louis. 



JAMES J. RAFTER, 

Attorney at Law, and Notary Public. Office 
over East St Louis Bank, East St. Louis, 
t, i>avi>yan.:ing and collecting attended to. 



THOMAS QUICK, 

ATTORNEY, 

,S>t. John's Buildinof, - East St. Louis. 



JOSEPH R. MESSICK, 
St- John's Building, East St. Louis. 



JOHH HlNCIICLIFP, L. M. Kasb, 

Barnikol Building, Belleville. 
Tno§. R. Fawcett, - - - East St. Lonis. 

mwmi mi m mmi 

ATTORNEYS AT LAV^ 

Cor. Third St. and Missouri ave., 

East St. Louis, - - > Illinois. 



J. D. MANNERS, 

ATTORNEY AT LAW 

Main street and MLssouri avenue, 
East St. Lonis, Illinois. 



W. a. BENNETT, 

AimmASD CgUNSELLOE AT uw 

NAL & 
RAILROAD LAW, 

SPECIALTIES. 

Missouri avenue, oppo-oite City Court room, 

EAST ST. LOUIS. 



WILLIAM G. KASE. 

ATTORNEY AT LAW. 

Will give prompt personal attention to all 
business entruoted to bis care. 

0£Q.cd over East St. Louis Bank, 

Cor. Missouri and Collinsville ave's, 

East St. Louis, - - - Iliinoia. 



MRS. BRADLEY, 



The accomplished 



mil \imi m ousaet, 

Collinsville avenue, between Summit and Illi- 
nois avenues, East St. Louis. 



MRS. L. M. STRICKLBR, 

MILLIIERY m DRESS MAKIKG, 

Broadway, bet. Fourth and Main sts.. 
East St. Louis, - - - . Illinois. 



EAST ST. LOUIS. 



14^ 



MRS. E. BUERKI, 



I NICE MEAT ALWAYS ON HAND 

— AT— 



Fashionable Dressmaker FRITZ LEBER'S BOTCHER SHOP, 



Cor. Collinsvillc and Suiujuit are's. , 
IBASTST. l.OUIS, - - - ILLIKOI.S. 



Dealer in Notions, 



Dyko ;tvenue, 
Ea.st St. T-oiii.s, - - - 



lllinoi.';, 



JASPER & KOELLING, 

DRY GOODS MERCHANTS, 

)»vc>adw!)y het. Fourth ind Maiu streets, 
EAST ST. LOUIS. 



E. G. BUCKNELL, 

DKALBtt IN' 

Weed Sewing Machines, 

Uis.rouri avcnu", opp. Main St., 

East St. Louis, 111. 



LAURENCE MURPHY, 

Third street, Second ward, E>i.=it St. Louis. 



RememtierftieretoGetTonrPlctnres 



FITZGIBBON'S 
I -Photograph. Qallery, 

St. John Building, 
KASTST. LOUIH, - - - ILLINOIS. 

MAURICE JOYCE, 

DEALKR IN 

FamilfGwfies. Wines, Liijuofs, etc., 

Corner Main and Broadway, 

I'iast St. Louis, - - Illinois 



J^[ICE GROCERIES 

ALWAYS ON IIA.VD WITH 

CHAS. MEHKING, 

Between Fourth and Main, 
KAisT ST. LOUIS, - - ILLINOIS. 



THE BAKER. 

Fresh Bread and Rolls 

HOT FROM THE OVEN, 

Delivered at your door. 
Bet. Summit and Ohioaves., Ea9t St. Louis 
EVERYTHING NEAT AND TASTY, 



LAURENT'S 

ICE CREAM SALOON 



—AND- 



Soda Fountain. 

Ice Cream Prepared to Order for Picnics. 



EVElt Yrni]\G NICE, FliESH AND TA;STr 

VICTOR BOURGBT, 

Hot Coffee, Ice Cream 

Itestaurant and Confectionery. 

Dyke avenue, near Cahokia Bridge, K. St. L. 



WILLIAM TELL HOUSE 

PETER BAUMAN, Proprietor. 
BOARDING BY DAY. WEEK OR MONTH, 

Cor. Main .street and Broailway, 

East. St. Lot) is. 



150 



HISTORY Of 



ADAM SCHLEKER'S 

Wines, Liquors & Cigars 

Of the best always on hand. 

Cor. CollinsvlUe and St. Louis avenues, East 
S4 . Louis. 

GUENIN & WUILLE, 

Manufacturers and Dealers in 

Clocks, Watcties, Jewelry, [tc„ Etc, 

Broadway, East St. Louis, 111. 
Rcpairino: neatly done and warranted. 



S. M. McCULLOUaH, 

BOOT & SHOE MAKER, Junction of Ohta 
and CoUinsville avenues, East St. Loui.s. 



B 



H. H. TREE BE, 

OOTS & SHOES, corner Tenth street and 
Illinois avenue, East St. Louis 



B 



G. H. TREBBE, 



OOTS & SHOES, Fourth street, opposite 
Center Market, East St Louis. 



FRED. SCHAFFNIT, 

siDDLE m mmi makeh, 

Corner Third and Broadway, 

GREEN TREE Building, 

East St. Louis. 



Sr3=-Dldest Sliaving' and Hair dressing: 
8»loou in the City."=g3i 



E. B. IHARTI?r'S 

HMS GUTTINI} & SHAYINa SALOON 

Missouri avenue, 

Near Main sti-ect, - - - East St Louis, 111 

Ctpping, Leeching and Tooth Drawing 

promptly attended to. Families 

visited in any ))nrt of the city. 

Ladies and Children's hair 

cut in the latest style. 



A. BIRD 

Keeps th<> neatest little 

EARBER SHOP 

In town, on the corner of Fourth street an(i 
Missouri avenue, li you wish to get a genuine 

SHAMPOO OR HAIR CUT 

sive him a call. He keeps the best workmen 
in the souihwest. 

Mrs. Bird, too, can be found by inquiring at 
the Barber Shop, where she will be glad to 
meet all wlio wish to be instructed on the (iuitar 
»a the most reasonable terras. A. BIKD. 



PHILLIP SCHMIDT, 

BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Fiie work done, 
and mending promptly attended to. Cor. 
F fth strct and Missouri avenue. 



Manufacturer of 

BOOTS and SHOES 

Cor. Summit and CoUinsville ave's. 
EAST ST. LOUIS, • - ILLINOIS. 

Repairing promptly attended to. 



W. J. LOWRY, 

pOETRAIT PAINTER, East S'.. Louie, 111. 



KURTZ, THE TOBACCONIST, 

KEEPS THE FINE-T CIGARS IS V'*M* 
Call and see. Missouri avenue, opposit. 
Center Market. 



W. T. MATTHEWS, 

HAY, 



DEALKU IX 



OATS, 

CORN, 

FLOUR, 

And all kinds of Feed. 
Broadway, opp. Trau'oel Hall, East .St. Lout*. 



AMBROSE JONES, 

DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF 

Sixth St., bet. Ohio and Summit aves. , 
East St. Louis, - - - - Illinois. 



r.ime. Cement, Cistern Pipe, Plaster Paris, 
Axle Grtase, Hair, etc., always on hand, 
Goeds delivered free of charge. 



EAST ST. LOUIS. 



151 



ADAM BAUCHENS, 

M\im Umi tJarefuUj Soiie. 

RcBidrnce on Collinsvillp nvonuf, bc- 

twtwn St. Lirtiis and Illinoi:^ Jive- 

aucs. Onicc at A. B. Miirtin'd 

Shaving Saloon. Orders to 

bo 'oft there. Try him. 



J. ALBOKN & ANDEKSOiSS 

EAST ST. LOUIS 

—AND— 

St. Louis Express Co. 

No. 104 Collinsvillo iivemie, bi-t. Bmad\vu> 
■Mfl Mitrifiuri aviniif, Ea8t St. Louis, Illinois", 
rasscnuers and bajrgage dflivercd to all parts 
•f boih citie.s. 



NATIONAL STOCK YARD 



REPORTER 



Publiahod Every Friduy, by 



JOHN UAPj & CO. 



Rooms 8 and 10 K:iehange Building. 



:yalional Sitock Yards, 111. 

The Rei'orter is circulated in Texap. 
Colorade, Imiiun Territory, Kansas, 
Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, and lUiuoi.-^; 
tUo in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, <fec. 

TiiK Kei'Ortek is not a local paper, 
attd pives no new.s of a local character In 
the place of publication. Circulation in 
EiistSt. Louis is very small. It is not a 
poliliciil paper, — the proprietors nject- 
mg all matter repardin^ the political 
questions and issues of the the day from 
Its columns. It is not a neioa paper, be- 



lievinof that the daily press and tlr« 
county papers keep it^' readers posted in 
rcjrani to current events. 

TuK KicroHr.KK is publislied every 
Friday morninor. Its columns contain 
receipts and .sales ot live stock lor tli« 
six pn eeedinp- days; tiie condition of th« 
live stock market at St. Louis; a short 
synopsis of east<*rn stock markets; liv« 
stock fn-iijht rates, and a ciioice .«elec- 
tioii of lireside rea(lln<r and useful infor- 
mation. Its readers embrace merch.iut^, 
bankers, drovers, and the intellisjent 
farmers tlirou;^'liout the west and south- 
west, and as an advertising ni'dium for 
the wholesale mercliants. maiiutacturens 
and dealers in ai?ricuUural implements 
and macliiner}', anil breeders ol bloodeO 
and line live stock, it is unsnrpasswl. 

The followiuir is a list of the eomims- 
sion merchants at the National Yards, 
who have subscribed for Thk IvKrourtK 
and send it to theii various correspoh- 
tlents reu:ularl)' every week: 
Uorsey & Conway. 
II. T. Ktenan & Co. 
Geo. N. Hinchman. 
D. B. Pitney & Co. 
Quiidan, Moiitii^omery A Co. 
Ilu^rhes & Holmes. 
W. L. Tamblyn & Co. 
I ). Smith & Co. 
Hunter, Kvans & Co. 
Buchanan & Co. 
l)aw.soii ct Underwood. 
Beasley Bros. 
lvin<rsbery, Aljrer & Co. 
Ed. \V. Pattison & Co. 
Williams & Tajior. 
Daly & Miller. 
Muihall <i Scalinnf. 
C. M. Keys & Co. 
Irons, Cassidy & Lancaster. 

The above tirms have all sent in a 
laro^e number of names at our reduceil 
club rates. Beside these, we have th« 
club list of the National Stock Yard Co. 
and a large list of individnal sub.scriber«, 
altej(ether makin<( The llitrouTicR one 
of the most desirable advertisinjf mv>- 
diums in the west. Advertisements ad- 
mitted to its columns must be from re- 
sponsil)le parties, otherwise they will b« 
rejected. 

The Reporter has no aorents or so- 
licitors who are authorized to collect or 
receipt for any money, for either paper 
or advertiseinents. unless authorized by 
It Iter of credit from the proprietors. 

For information address 

J. HAl'S <t Co. 
Nat. Stock Yards, Ka.st St. Louis, 111. 



INDEX TO BUSINESS. 

f 

Educational [ 142- ii 

T*iof<*ssional ; Portrait Paintinof | IT© 

Ri^porter ; , liil 

Su^ar lielinery K!^ 

Plaiiinof ami Fl'mriiijr Mills ; Books ami Pharmacy H4 

Merchant Tailorinof; Grocer; Basket Works 145 

Wines, Liquors; Ice. Wood, Feed 14i 

Groceries, Provisions, Wines; Boarding; Bulldino:; Froirs and Crossings 14S 
Dress-Making' and Notions: Dry Goods Weed Sewina Macliines; Photo- 
graphs; Groceries; Meats; Bakers; Ice Cream; Hotel 14S 

Exclian^e; Watches and Jewelry; Harness; Barbers; Boots and .Sliooe; 

Tobacco; Feed ^ l')* 

Furniture Cars; Express l-"'! 

Elevators, 3d page cover. Attornies; St. Clair Title Office, 2d page cover. 
Real Estate, 4th page cover. 



PHOPESSOE OF EHETOmC, 

Will give Private Lessons to individual 



T 



Stiidexits of Oratory 

ON THE 

Right Use and Powers of The Voie® 

IN 

At his Eesidence, near corner of Sl.Clair and Collinsyille avenues; 
and to Classes at Hov^'e Literary Institute, East St. Louis, 111. 



INDEX TO BUSINESS. 

f 

Educational [ l4'2-\i 

Professional ; Portrait Paintino; ) IT© 

Reporter ; ISl 

Sutfar llelinery H!' 

Plauin": and Fliurinor Mills ; Books anu Pharmacj' 1'14 

Merchant Tailoring-; Grocer; Basket Works 145 

AVines, Liquors; Ice. Wood, Feed 14K 

Groceries. Provisions, Wines; Boardin^; Building-; FYogs and Crossings 14J» 
Dress-Making and Notions: Dry Goods Weed Sewing Machines; Photo- 
graphs; Groceries; Meats'; Bakers; Ice Cream; Hotel ]4.*i 

Exciiange; Watches and Jewelry; Harness; Barbers; Boots and Shot* ; 

Tobacco; Feed * l-^>* 

Furniture Cars; Express i l-'d 

Elevators, 3d page cover. Attornies; St. Clair Title Office, 2d page cover. 
Real Estate, 4th page cover. 



PHOFESSOU OF HHETOEIC, 

Will give Private Lcsdous to individual 

StxicLents of Oratory 

ON THE 

Right Use and Powers of The Voie® 

IN 

At his Eesidence, near corner of St.Clair and Collinsyille avepuesj 
and to Classes at Howe Literary Inbliiute, East St. Louis, 111. 



i.^*A=_ ^, 



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The Great National Stock Yards, at East St Louis, Illinois, contain ^56 Acres, ot which IQO Acres are enclosed, and QQ Acres are under Sheds. 



U. S. McCorniick, Chicago. U. U. Adams. II. Aimington. J. W. Adams. 

HcCormick, Adams & Armington 



PROPRIETORS OF 



Advance and Venice Elevators, 

GRAIX BUYKR^ <& SHIPPERS, 

— AND — 

GENERAL FORWARDING MERCHANTS, 

Office Mt-rchants' Excliange Building, St. Louis. 



(^orrospontlents, McCormick, Adams & Co., Commission Mercliaiits, Cliioiigo. 



Advance & Venice Elevators, and Warehouses* 

Tariff ot Cliarges to take Effect on and after 

"W^ediiesday, July 1. 1874. 



STORAGE ON GRAIN, IN BULK.— 2 cents per bushel for first ten 
(lays, and J cent per bushel for each subsequent ten days or fractional part 
thereof. 

IN S VCKS.— Wheat, Corn, Barley and Rye, 2 cents per bushel for first 
ten davs. and J cc-nt.s per bushel for each subsequent ten days. 

OATS, G cents per sack for first ten days, and 2 cents for subsequent ten 

'''*'■ NO CHARGE FOR WEIGHING. 

All Grain weiorhed by a regular licensed City (JVeigher. 

FT.OUK, 6 cents per barrel for the first ten days, and 2 cents per barrel 
for each subsequent tnirty days. 

SALT. 8 cent \)Qv barrel for the first thirty days, and 4 cents per barrel for 
each snb.sequent thirty days. 

Otlier articles not lierein enumerated, special rates. 

McCORMICK, ADAMS c'c ARMINGTOX. 



MARCUS FINCH, 

REAL ESTATE AfiENT, 

Kast St. Louis, 111. 



Real Estate Bought and Sold on 
Commission, Rents collected, Taxes 
paid, Abstracts of title, and infor- 
mation as to values of lands in this 
vicinity furnished. 



DEEDS, DEEDS OF TRUST, LEASES.^c. DRA WN 



All business entrusted to my 

care will receive prompt 

personal attention. 



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